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Who needs Google Street View when you have Sheep View 360?

Edit Mashable 13 Jul 2016
The Faroe Islands are a remote archipelago to the northwest of Scotland, and while less than 50,000 people live there, more than 70,000 sheep call it home. The local tourist body, Visit Faroe Islands, decided to put their wooly friends to good use....

China Adheres to the Position of Settling Through Negotiation the Relevant Disputes Between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Jul 2016
The Philippines' invasion and illegal occupation caused disputes with China over some islands and reefs of Nansha Qundao ... No one was sighted on Taiping Dao (Itu Aba Island), but a tablet scripted with Chinese characters was found, which said that, in that magazine's rendition, 'Moi, Ti Mung, patron de jonque, suis venu ici à la pleine lune de mars pour vous porter des aliments....

Flight-tests check routes to Nansha airfields

Edit China Daily 13 Jul 2016
China said on Tuesday it has successfully flight-tested routes to two new airfields on the Nansha Islands in the South China Sea ... "This will facilitate the transport of personnel, emergency rescue and medical aid on the Nansha Islands, and will provide new alternate airports to flights over the South China Sea." ... "China will berth large rescue ships and have rescue planes on the Nansha Islands....

Love Island: Is Caroline Flack returning for series 3?

Edit Digital Spy 13 Jul 2016
Love Island's only just ended, but it looks as if Caroline Flack is planning to return next summer ... comment on Flack's current status with Love Island....

R.I. tourism campaign to relaunch soon with Rhode Islanders playing prominent role

Edit The Providence Journal 13 Jul 2016
— Rhode Island's new tourism campaign is poised to go live with digital ads around July 25, with images and sentiments gathered from Rhode Islanders during the post-Cooler & Warmer effort.They include a little girl on Block Island's Crescent Beach, shared by @lunaandstella on Twitter, and an image of Slater Mill in Pawtucket, shared on ......

China rejects UN-backed tribunal’s verdict on South China Sea

Edit Indian Express 13 Jul 2016
17, 2016, shows satellite images of Woody Island, the largest of the Paracel Islands, in the South China Sea ... “The tribunal also noted that, although Chinese navigators and fishermen, as well as those of other States, had historically made use of the islands in the SCS, there was no evidence that China had historically exercised exclusive control over the waters or their resources,” it said....

Thanthonni Thuruthu regains water supply

Edit The Times of India 13 Jul 2016
This had forced the 65 families residing in the island to fetch drinking water from far off places ... The rains made the to and fro journey tougher," said T N Gopan, a resident of the island. The island has a ......

US Virgin Islands struggling with uptick in gun violence

Edit The Indiana Times 13 Jul 2016
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) — The leader of the U.S. Virgin Islands says the three-island territory is undergoing a worrying uptick in gun violence ... ....

Missing Street View, Faroe Islands Turn to 'Sheep View'

Edit NBC News 13 Jul 2016
If you were to take a tour of Europe's tiny, rocky Faroe Islands in Google Street View, you might see a lot of sheep. But you can't take a tour of the Faroe Islands on Google Street View, unlike much of the rest... Photo Credit. Courtesy Visit Faroe Islands. This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser ... ....

Mangano, Santino & ABLI Launch International Corporate Recruitment Drive (Nassau County, NY)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Jul 2016
For those who want New York proximity without an exorbitant Manhattan address, Long Island is open for business.' ... Nassau County Executive Mangano stated 'Nassau County is prepared to combine the necessary resources and incentives that would allow our development community to have a competitive edge in attracting international companies to our island ... Consensus among many Long Island towns....

Beijing reasserts claims over South China Sea

Edit The Times of India 13 Jul 2016
China was "the first to have discovered, named, and explored and exploited" the islands of the South China Sea islands and their waters, and had "continuously, peacefully and effectively exercised sovereignty and jurisdiction over them", Beijing said in a white paper on settling disputes with the Philippines, which brought the case in The Hague....

Rio de Janeiro Fire Sale Starts With Governor’s Island Mansion

Edit Bloomberg 13 Jul 2016
Luis Claudio Gomes, a pension fund executive, boarded an aluminum launch and headed toward the Rio de Janeiro island he’s looking to sell ... Its finances are in such ruin the governor is selling his own summer residence and the idyllic Brocoio Island upon which it sits ... What it would cost along with a private island is anyone’s guess. “It’s Fantasy Island,’’ said Algebaile, who gave Gomes his June 30 tour of the residence....

CNBC ranks R.I. worst state for business

Edit The Providence Journal 13 Jul 2016
Rhode Island ranked last among the 50 states in CNBC's latest report of the Best and Worst States for Business in 2016.The news organization ranked the states on 60 measures of competitiveness, and then separated the metrics into 10 broad categories.Rhode ranked last in infrastructure and among the worst states in cost of doing business, economy and access to capital....
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