Topic: Falkland Islands

UPI Almanac for Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014.

UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014.

Five earthquakes, including a 7-magnitude quake, rattled the Falkland Islands for more than 2 hours Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

European Union negotiators have renewed a diplomatic initiative to mediate a worsening British-Spanish standoff over Gibraltar, the British overseas territory disputed by Madrid.

Two of the companies drilling for oil in the Falkland Islands' South Atlantic waters are merging and further corporate patch-ups may not be far behind, industry analysts said.

As compromises go, Argentina is buying used French Mirage jets from Spain rather than pour scarce cash into an ambitious but more desirable acquisition of new aircraft.

Fishing is at risk from climate change in the South Atlantic waters, new research shows.

A message in a bottle dropped into the south Atlantic by a marine researcher has washed up half a world away in New Zealand, the note's author said.

A Gibraltar official is accusing the Spanish government of using a dispute with Britain to divert attention from Spain's domestic problems.

Adm. John Woodward, who led the British naval force that recaptured the Falkland Islands from Argentina in 1982, has died. He was 81.