WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Air Force has suspended plans it had proposed with Elon Musk's SpaceX to test hypersonic ...

Washington became concerned about China's ambition to gain a military foothold in the Pacific Islands in 2018 when Beijing ...

Amelia Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937, over the Pacific Ocean en route to Howland Island from Lae, New Guinea, in one of ...

Just over 3,000 tourists visited the island in 2023, according to government data. It has one airport, on Funafuti, that services just a handful of flights each week from Pacific neighbor Fiji.

SYDNEY — Fourteen Pacific island nations will receive $107 million to adapt their tuna-dependent economies as climate change pushes the fish farther from their shores, the Green Climate Fund ...

The U.S. and India are nearing a deal to lower tariffs on American imports to the South Asian country and to help India avoid ...

To determine the best Pacific Islands, U.S. News considered user votes and expert opinions, plus factors like diversity of attractions, accessibility and affordability.

David Campese is the latest to take aim at the number of Southern Hemisphere players in the British and Irish Lions squad.

The Pacific Islands Region: While Pacific Island countries occupy a land mass of only 300,000 square miles, their total exclusive economic zone spans 7.7 million square miles of ocean.

Palau, a country comprising some 340 islands in the Pacific Ocean, is running a trial of a stablecoin linked to the U.S. dollar, Jay Hunter Anson, a member of the board of directors at the ...

The UN Climate Change Conference, COP29, held in Baku, Azerbaijan from November 11-22, took place as 2024 heads towards the hottest year in human history. Temperatures are expected to be 1.5 ºC ...