A TINY remote island that sits just two miles between the US and Russia allows residents to bring in the new year a day before it arrives. Alaska’s Little Diomede Island lies just 2.4 miles ...

Experience the thrill of celebrating New Year twice by visiting Little Diomede and Big Diomede islands in the Bering Strait.

In 1948, Russia booted the native population off ... The islands are sometimes called Tomorrow Island (Big Diomede) and Yesterday Island (Little Diomede). Reaching Yesterday Island is quite ...

Ten Filipino teachers work at James C. Isabell School in this village. This village is just 2.5 miles away from Big Diomede Island, a Russian territory across the Bering Strait. The narrow strait ...

The volcanic "nesting dolls," collectively known as the Krenitsyna Volcano, are located on the southern tip of Onekotan Island in the Kuril Islands — a Russian archipelago located in the Pacific ...

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has apologised to the president of neighbouring Azerbaijan for the downing of a commercial airliner in Russian airspace, in which 38 people were killed – but stopped ...

As Russia lost soldiers seeking to fully seize the city, Putin resorted to a siege vowing that “not even a fly comes through” his army’s lines. Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island in the ...