1. They're off on a trip, to-wait for it-the Maldives!

2. The Maldives pressed its claim to hold next year's summit.

3. The Maldives is a popular destination for honeymoon couples.

4. Soot from India has been found in the Maldive Islands and on the Tibetan Plateau; from the United States, it travels to the Arctic.

5. The eclipse lasted the longest near the Maldive Islands, noted eclipse expert and National Geographic grantee Jay Pasachoff, Field Memorial Professor at Williams College in Massachusetts.

6. My colleague spent her holiday in maldive with her husband, then took the pics...

7. Made up of 26 atolls from 1101 islands, the Maldive islands form a beautiful archipelago that make it a favorite destination for beachgoers and snorkelers alike.

8. But local chef Zul Aman can, and he even survived the deadly tsunami which hit the beautiful and sunny Maldive islands when he was working there.

9. An aerial view shows Male,() the capital city of the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean.

10. Lecture I: From Jingdezhen to Damascus: Chinese Porcelain in Syria, the Near East, Maldive Islands, India and Sri Lanka.

11. So if people burn things without offsetting the carbon dioxide thus produced, their holidays in the Maldive islands will disappear, along with the islands themselves.