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Marie Helvin's heaven and hell
Former supermodel Marie Helvin on naked sunbathing, meeting Marlon Brando and perfecting her Taha'a tan.

Easter Island fines ear chipper
A Finnish tourist who chipped an ear off an Easter Island statue is fined $17,000 and told to stay away for three years.

Obituary: Gonzalo Figueroa
Gonzalo Figueroa Garca Huidobro, who has died in Santiago, aged 77, was one of the last survivors of a small band of pioneering archaeologists who in the 1950s and 60s solved the mysteries of one of the world's ...

Finn held over Easter Island ear
A Finnish tourist is detained on Easter Island on suspicion of trying to steal a stone statue's earlobe.

Heads could roll: Easter Island
It's often described as the world's most remote inhabited island. But Easter Island is experiencing a tourist boom and some are worried the onslaught of outsiders could take a toll on the very things they come ...

'Every flight is full'
It's earth's most-remote inhabited land, a South Pacific speck of volcanic rock so isolated the locals call it "Te Pito O Te Henua," or "The Navel of the World." But Easter Island is a bellybutton experiencing ...

Record tourism could harm Easter Island statues
EASTER ISLAND, Chile -- It's earth's most remote inhabited land, a South Pacific speck of volcanic rock so isolated the locals call it "Te Pito O Te Henua," or "The Navel of the World." But Easter Island is a ...

Barack Obama as rapa nui
I've just begun working on Obama and this is what I did for a piece by Marc Ash, director of truthout.org. The Easter Island monoliths that are found along the coast are actually called moai.

The OTHER Mystery of Easter Island
These huge 'heads' have been branded into popular consciousness, but these are not the only curiosity the South Pacific island holds.

Changing faces of Easter Island
Published Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last updated Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 6:07 a.m. It is Earth's most-remote inhabited land, a South Pacific speck of volcanic rock so isolated the locals call it "Te ...