A birthday party for a 104-year-old St. Paul native with a Hawaiian theme is perfectly appropriate the more you get to know ...

He was a member of a segregated unit in the Pacific Northwest that fought forest fires set off by Japanese balloon bombs.

A group of World War II veterans will make their final journey back to Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa to mark the 80th ...

An Okinawa Prefecture island where mass suicides took place during World War II held a memorial ceremony on March 26, the ...

"Johnny Cash wrote the song, 'The Ballad of Ira Hayes,' with these words included about his life after his service and what it had done to him: 'When war came, ...

He said he had seen no mention of the liberation of the Channel Islands from German forces in plans to mark the anniversary of the end of World War Two. Peacock told the House of Commons she would ...

WWE 2K25 introduces The Island, an open-world game mode centered around the Samoan Dynasty, offering exploration, multiplayer challenges, and single-player adventures. Available only on PS5 and ...

That’s because there are no roads connecting communities across the island’s 836,330 square miles. An independent Greenland would be the 12th-biggest country in the world by land mass.

Vanuatu, a tiny island nation in the South Pacific, has recently drawn international attention after its Prime Minister, Jotham Napat, ordered the cancellation of fugitive businessman Lalit Modi ...

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake took place in the Jan Mayen Island Region. The depth was 10km, according to USGS. On March 10 (02:33:14 (UTC), a powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.5 occurred in the Jan ...

Firefighters are making progress battling a series of brush fires on Long Island that burned over 400 hundred acres of land and prompted evacuations east of New York City, local officials say.