STORY: Every year followers of the Candomble and Umbanda religions dress in white to celebrate Yemanja by singing and dancing around her statue set up on the beach. Yemanja's devotees show up with ...

Taylor Hamlin was stripped of the Maine Lobster Festival's prestigious Maine Sea Goddess crown over two social media photos deemed "inappropriate" by the competition Dave Quinn is the Deputy News ...

A Maine woman has been stripped of her title as 2018 Maine Lobster Festival Sea Goddess after a photo of her holding a marijuana cigarette was circulated within 24 hours of her being crowned. Taylor ...

The Maine Lobster Festival stripped its teenage Sea Goddess, Taylor Hamlin, of her crown after someone sent officials photos of her holding a blunt and a vaping device. Officials say they have been ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Each New Year’s Eve, more than 2 million revelers – twice as many as typically fill Times Square – dress in white and pack Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro to watch a 15-minute ...

Some 60 kilometers off the northwest coast of Fukuoka Prefecture lies the tiny island of Okinoshima. The closest municipality is Munakata city, famous for its fisheries, particularly the abalone and ...

Fishing community honours Sea Goddess Gangamma during Gangamma Jathara, expressing gratitude for protection from the 2004 tsunami.

WATER, as a life-sustaining force and a mighty destroyer, has fascinated humans since the beginning of time, as they migrated through fertile river valleys, settling near rivers and oceans. Rock ...

A sea goddess drowning in an oil-filled fishbowl helmet has been seen outside the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) offices this morning. A campaigner from Ocean Rebellion, the sister group to ...

Seabourn Cruise Line is selling two ships in its fleet, the Sea Goddess I and II, to Norwegian investor Atle Brynestad, who was the company’s founder. He will take over operations of the ships on Sept ...