A few weeks ago, commercial flights over the Tasman Sea — located between Australia and New Zealand — were forced to divert ...

Iwoto is an isolated island about 1,200 kilometers south of Tokyo ... battlefields of the Pacific Theater, and a monument depicting U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi ...

His visit comes as Beijing has been showing increasing assertiveness in the disputed South China ... peace in the Indo-Pacific.” Most of those who fought on the tiny island are gone but their ...

One of the most famous WWII photos was taken on Feb. 23, 1945 when U.S. Marines raised a small American flag ... the island was only 11 square miles, it was considered crucial to the Pacific ...

There are 8000 shipwrecks off Australia alone, many more still to be found. Yet stunning discoveries still happen. What does ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A Pacific storm unleashed heavy rain and ... pummeled large swaths of the country this week. Coastal areas south of San Francisco to San Diego could get an inch or so of rain ...

Since 1959 the avian flu virus H5N1 has been popping up around the globe. Now scientists believe it could spark the next ...

Located about 1,200 kilometers south of Tokyo ... the cornerstone of peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific.” The island was returned to Japan in 1968 and members of the Maritime and Air ...

Like many of the prolonged battles waged during the last year of World War II, the fighting on Iwo Jima resulted in the ...

Now, they are increasingly operating under foreign flags ... island, not conceal its intentions. However, what happens in the Taiwan Strait will not stay in the Taiwan Strait. China’s shadow-fleet ...