Aside from its sandy white beaches that draw big tourism dollars for the Kenyan economy, Mombasa features a large port that is used for transportation by neighboring landlocked countries.

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Despite the influx of daytrippers, the island of Porquerolles is wholly unspoilt: most of its white sandy beaches and pine woods are protected by the Parc National de Port-Cros.

BBC: Mini guide to coastal C?te d��Azur

The small surf town of Cayucos has remained miraculously immune to over-development for decades, despite its great wines to the east and white sandy beaches to the west.

CNN: 10 dazzling hideaways by the sea

On any other warm summer day, the white sandy beaches here around Jieh - a resort town about 15 miles south of Beirut - would be packed with sun worshippers.

NPR: Oil Slick Threatens Lebanese Coast

The tourist nation -- whose white sandy beaches lure well-heeled Westerners -- wants to set aside part of its annual billion-dollar revenue into buying a new homeland, he said at the time.

CNN: Cabinet in drowning Maldives to meet underwater

The green and white ribbons that have come to signify the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School have now, for some, become a call to action.

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The White House says that the president was updated through the night as Hurricane Sandy carved its way up the coast - signing two declarations of disaster.

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