The Diomede Islands - two craggy specks in the middle of the Bering Strait-sit two and a half miles apart but live in different days. Little Diomede, U.S. territory, and Big Diomede, Russian, are ...

In the Bering Strait, two small islands sit only a few miles apart, yet they operate on different calendar days. One belongs to Alaska. The other belongs to Russia. The water between them is narrow, ...

Just 2.4 miles from Russia's Big Diomede Island, the city of 83 people can see the border from the shore. "We're safe, as long as we sleep good at night," a resident told Insider. "We keep the eyes ...

Located just three miles apart from each other, the two remote islands of Big Diomede and Little Diomede are divided by two time zones. The two islands, Big Diomede (Russia) and Little Diomede (USA), ...