With the Samoa 2019 XVI Pacific Games only a week away, the island nation in the South Pacific has readied its shores to welcome thousands of athletes, coaches and officials for the greatest sports ...

New research suggests ancient islanders may have migrated across the Pacific in response to shifting rainfall. As the west grew drier and the east wetter, people may have followed water to survive.

President Trump’s decisive action against the illegitimate Maduro regime in Venezuela has focused world attention on the ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series, written by former PDN staffer and lifelong football fan Paul Addison. When Father Tony Gillespie was living in a monastery in Devon, England, ...

Greenland became a Danish colony, around the time the concept of America was brewing in the minds of British colonists to the ...

This remote, volcanic South Pacific island in the Solomon chain is an under-the-radar haven that awards adventurous travelers ...

Uninhabited Baker Island is among the last to see the new year, as 2026 takes 26 hours to roll across the globe.

When I served as president of Northern Marianas College, an American public college more than 6,000 miles from Washington, ...

Much of the West recorded more than 100% of normal precipitation for the week, with large portions of California receiving ...

Some of climate change's sharpest realities are being felt on small island nations, where extreme weather is claiming homes ...

Which countries enter New Year 2026 before India and which celebrate after? From Kiribati to American Samoa, here’s the full ...

Sadik, of New York, to be United States Director of the African Development Bank for a term of five years, vice Oren E ...