The Latest Breaking News from Mediterranean

Hundreds dying as route from Libya or Tunisia to Greece or Italy made in unseaworthy, overloaded boats

Nearly two months after a dilapidated fishing trawler crammed with people heading from north Africa to Italy sank in the central Mediterranean, killing hundreds, relatives are still frantically searching for loved ones among the missing and dead

If you were around that summer 26 years ago, you remember this vessel well from the hordes of photos taken of it with the Princess of Wales aboard.

Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923) is one of the great masters of painting. He has gone down in history for the way he captured the light in his paintings and depicting the differences between Mediterranean and Cantabrian luminosity in moments of everyday life.

More than 30 million passengers pass through Antalya airport every year. It is the main gateway for the Turkish Riviera. Understandably many of the arriving travellers go straight to their beach resort for sea, sun and indulgence, or head for the golf course. But you can also enjoy coast, countryside…

Wildfires have brought chaos and devastation to Europe this year

In this extract from the book "When the Sahara Was Green", Martin Williams, professor of earth sciences at the University of Adelaide, explores how a vanishing ocean and global cooling set the stage for the birth of the Sahara desert.

Dozens of migrants have been dramatically brought to safety by Italian rescuers as they foundered in the sea or clung to a rocky reef

Firefighters said they evacuated more than 130 people as they fought Saturday to control a wildfire at Portbou on the Spanish border with France on the Mediterranean coast.