The president of the Maldives says the Indian Ocean nation will become the world’s first carbon-neutral country within a decade.

Mohamed Nasheed was sworn in Tuesday as the Maldives’ first democratically elected president, ending three decades of single-party rule in the Indian Ocean archipelago.

Election officials say opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed has won the Maldives’ first democratic presidential election.

Asia’s longest-serving leader faces a democracy activist he once held as a political prisoner in a run-off vote Tuesday in the Maldives’ first democratic presidential election.

President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom appeared headed for a runoff against a former political prisoner who leads the main opposition in the Maldives’ first democratic presidential election, according to poll results announced Thursday.

Islanders in the cramped city of Male and scores of far-flung atolls began voting Wednesday in the first democratic presidential election in their tiny nation’s history.

To supporters, President Mamoun Abdul Gayoom is a hero who turned a poor nation of fishermen into a tourist paradise and the economic success story of South Asia.

Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom signed and adopted a new constitution Thursday that allows multiparty elections and other democratic reforms after decades of authoritarian rule.

Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom signed and adopted a new constitution Thursday that allows multiparty elections and a number of other key democratic reforms after decades of authoritarian rule.

Two photo agencies have agreed to pay $113,000 to Hugh Grant, his ex-girlfriend Liz Hurley and her husband for taking photos of them while they were vacationing in the Maldives.Britain’s High Court says The Big Pictures and Eliot Press Sarl agencies...