A pair of American military vessels responding to a mayday call this week saved the crew of a sinking cargo ship in the Persian Gulf, according to U.S. Central Command.

The name change to Gulf of America is the first since the 1540s where various maps referred to it as the Mexican Gulf, Golpho de la Nueva España, and, finally Gulf of Mexico.

WASHINGTON DC: In line with a recent executive order by President Donald Trump, Google Maps will soon update ... “Sea of Japan (East Sea)” and “Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf).” ...

For more than four centuries, the body of water stretching from Florida through Texas and into Mexico has been known as the ...

The White House says news organizations that refuse to use President Donald Trump’s new name for the Gulf of Mexico are telling “lies." It insists it will continue to bar ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic is ruthlessly exploited by the tourism industry. It is a theme eloquently ...

Google says it will display the names "Gulf of America" and "Mount McKinley" to the US users of its Google Maps service if and when US President Donald Trump's pledge to rename the locations ...

If you are in another country, including Pakistan, Google Maps outlines Jammu and Kashmir, as well as Ladakh, with a black dashed line. What Iran calls the Persian Gulf is called the Arabian Gulf ...

The body of water separating Iran from the United Arab Emirates is labelled in Google Maps as the Persian Gulf for people in Canada, but as the Arabian Gulf for people in Arab countries like Lebanon. ...

The body of water separating Iran from the United Arab Emirates is labelled in Google Maps as the Persian Gulf for people in Canada, but as the Arabian Gulf for people in Arab countries like Lebanon.

In 2012, Iran threatened to take legal action against Google over its decision to drop the term "Persian Gulf" from Maps and leave the waterway between Iran and the Arabian peninsula nameless.