Cape Verde

When Eleanor Stanford boarded a plane to spend two years on the islands of Cape Verde, she had no idea what she was in for. She didn't know the language. She didn't know what the people ate. She didn't even know where she was going to live. -------...

Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in bayside bars on the West African island nation of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy Award in 2004 after she finally took her music to stages around the world, died Saturday. She was 70. Evora,...

Now we have three tropical waves scattered across the Atlantic, two near Africa and one near Florida. Although it's too early to say where they might go, the two waves near Africa are most worth watching because they are in a region wherehurricanes...

Hurricane forecasters are watching three disturbances in the Altantic, two of which are given a 40 percent chance of becoming tropical storms in the next two days.The two most likely candidates to become Tropical Storms Franklin and Gert, are in......

A new tropical depression has formed in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Forecasters expect it will become Tropical Storm Katia later today, and strengthening to hurricane force by Thursday as it steams to the west-northwest in the mid-Atlantic. Tropical...

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This itinerary was last updated Sept. 28, 2009. For more Holland America ms Prinsendam cruises click here. 26-Day Amazon Explorer 2009 Departure Date: Nov. 25 Cruise Ports: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US; Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep.; Oranjestad, Aruba;...

FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:We are entering prime time for the “Cape Verde hurricanes.” An average of two of these storms form each year, most in August and September, and usually within 600 miles of the Cape Verde islands, off West......

The pace of storm formation is picking up in the waters near the Cape Verde Islands in the eastern tropical Atlantic. Even as a slightly weakened Hurricane Danielle continues to move across the central Atlantic, forecasters are preparing to issue......

(WGN-AM)- An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris ran into a towering wall of thunderstorms and disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean. French President Nicolas Sarkozy told families of those aboard Monday that "prospects of...

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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - Most of Florida was spared the heavy rain that forecasters believed Tropical Storm Henri would bring yesterday, as the system weakened into a tropical depression and moved quickly across the peninsula. Rainfall totals in most areas...