Filipino crews raced to hang yellow foam barriers over the side, preparing for a collision. Suddenly the Chinese ship made a ...

On May 9, 1994, South Africa’s newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country’s first Black president. In ...

Alton Box Board & Paper Co. was established on this site in 1910 in Alton's industrial corridor.

The two vessels were less than five metres apart. We were racing towards Scarborough Shoal, a tiny coral atoll 220km (137 miles) west of the Philippines coast, but also claimed by China.

They had embarked March 31 in a 20-foot boat with an outboard motor from Pulawat Atoll, a small island with about an estimated 1,000 inhabitants in the Federated States of Micronesia about 1,800 miles ...

The capsizing of a boat carrying childhood vaccines and health workers in Tuvalu underscored the challenges of healthcare in remote Pacific Islands as they battle extreme weather caused by climate ...

I n a search area covering more than 100,000 square miles in the remote Pacific, the 31-acre atoll was a needle in a haystack. Still, authorities discovered the three men stranded for days on the ...

The parliament voted to accept the recommendation of a special tribunal to remove Lambourne for misbehaviour. An attempt to deport Lambourne, a judge who is married to Kiribati's opposition party ...

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Negotiators are considering ways to limit the massive amounts of plastic waste polluting oceans, harming wildlife and ...

Today in History for May 21: On this date: In 427 B.C., philosopher Plato was born. In 1471, King Henry VI of England was executed during the "Wars of the Roses." Henry of the House of Lancaster, the ...

They had embarked March 31 in a 20-foot boat with an outboard motor from Pulawat Atoll, a small island with about an estimated 1,000 inhabitants in the Federated States of Micronesia about 1,800 miles ...