A humpback whale’s song can pulse through up to 10,000 miles of water. It takes a pair of 5,000-litre lungs — 1,000 times larger than a human’s — to engineer the noise, a sort of haunting, guttural ...

Tahitian dancers in palm-leaf skirts mingled with Olympic surfers, locals and tourists as the opening ceremony for the Summer Games commenced in French Polynesia on Friday morning, some 10,000 miles ...