WASHINGTON - Two strong earthquakes 40 minutes apart rocked the remote South Orkney Islands in Antarctica on Sunday, experts from the US Geological Survey said. The epicenter of the first, a magnitude 6.5 temblor, was at a depth of 10 kilometers (six miles), some 464 kilometers west of Coronation ...

All four people aboard a French helicopter that crashed in Antarctica were found dead by rescue workers on Saturday, the French government said. The bodies of two French scientists, a pilot and a mechanic were recovered from the wreckage and flown some 100 kilometres to Frances research base in ...