# Pacific

Last year

2022

# category 3

Hurricane Roslyn hits Mexico's Pacific coast

The hurricane is expected to produce a life-threatening storm surge

10.6k

Oct 23rd 2022, 4:08 PM

All time

# Pool D

Radradra on Fiji's wing as Cheika pairs Hooper and Pocock in Wallaby back row

The Australia coach was reluctant to suggest that the duo could also start together against Wales in week two.

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Sep 19th 2019, 11:32 AM

# global season

Sexton leads critics of 'out-of-touch' proposal for new 12-team World Rugby tournament

There was no place for Fiji, Samoa or Tonga in the proposed tournament, with emerging TV markets Japan and USA preferred.

50.7k

Feb 28th 2019, 8:27 AM

# Storm

Photos: The 'extremely dangerous' Hurricane Willa crashes into Mexico's Pacific coast

The eye of the storm was on the edge of the Mexican coast overnight.

13.8k

Oct 24th 2018, 7:30 AM

# Micronesia

Plane 'lands short of the runway' and ditches into Pacific lagoon

It said there were no serious injuries; the airline didn’t specify what caused the accident.

28.0k

Sep 28th 2018, 7:06 AM

# OCEAN CLEAN UP

The Ocean Cleanup project sails out to sweep Pacific plastic

The ambitious project hopes to clean up half of an infamous garbage patch within five years.

31.4k

Sep 9th 2018, 9:25 AM

# cyclone gita

Powerful storm levels Tonga's parliament house and heads towards Fiji

Cyclone Gita caused power outages after tearing through the island nation just south of the capital.

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Feb 13th 2018, 7:44 AM

# try try again

North Korea's latest missile test 'explodes' upon launch

North Korea is under several sets of United Nations sanctions over its atomic and ballistic missile programmes.

17.5k

Mar 22nd 2017, 7:07 AM

# chance discovery

Starving teenage boy rescued 'by chance' after nearly two weeks at sea without food

The boy was found along with three fishermen in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

32.5k

Feb 23rd 2017, 9:02 AM

# USA

6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of northern California

Seismologists said that no major tsunami threat was expected.

21.8k

Dec 8th 2016, 3:45 PM

# Cast Away

Two men washed up on uninhabited Pacific island saved after writing 'SOS' in the sand

The men were stranded for about 8 days.

48.2k

Aug 27th 2016, 3:02 PM

# baby on board

"Is there a doctor on board?" - Watch this woman give birth in a plane over the Pacific

Six flight attendants wearing surgical masks can be seen

21.9k

Oct 16th 2015, 8:32 AM

# Pacific

Bodies of soldiers found in cave 70 years after brutal WWII battle

More than 70 years later, remains have been recovered.

27.1k

Apr 1st 2015, 12:44 PM

# the aviator

Detectives hunting the mysterious disappearance of Amelia Earhart have travelled to a remote Pacific island

Earhart disappeared in 1937 while attempting to circumnavigate the world.

33.6k

Jan 25th 2015, 2:47 PM

# huge wave

Three dead after tourist catamaran sinks off Costa Rica

Rescuers have plucked 94 people from the sea so far.

16.4k

Jan 8th 2015, 9:37 PM

# splash-land

Orion: A successful Planet Earth landing for NASA's latest test-flight

The craft flew further and faster than any capsule built for humans since the Apollo moon program — 42 years ago.

7.9k

Dec 5th 2014, 9:05 PM

# Valparaiso

Sixteen people have died in a huge fire consuming the outskirts of a Chilean port city

The military has taken over security in the city of Valparaiso.

10.7k

Apr 13th 2014, 12:59 PM

# Adrift

Castaway says dreams about his family (and food) sustained him

Fisherman Jose Salvador Alvarenga said he thought about suicide during his 13 months adrift in the Pacific.

16.6k

Feb 4th 2014, 9:52 AM

# Sail Away

"I feel bad": Castaway arrives home after year adrift at sea

Jose Ivan said he had set sail from Mexico on Christmas Eve, 2012.

38.0k

Feb 3rd 2014, 6:10 PM

# Eruption

Victims engulfed in ash as volcano kills at least 15

Victims were covered by scorching clouds during the eruption.

13.6k

Feb 2nd 2014, 9:57 AM

# At Sea

Castaway survived 16 months adrift at sea by eating turtles

The man washed up on Thursday and said he has been floating in the Pacific since September 2012.

38.6k

Feb 1st 2014, 10:15 AM

# Earthquake

Earthquake sends New Zealand office workers scrambling

No tsunami warning has been issued after a 6.5 magnitude temblor hit the country’s South Island.

9.0k

Aug 16th 2013, 10:21 AM

# Papua New Guinea

Teenage girl beheads father after he rapes her

Community leaders in the village in Papua New Guinea have protected the 18-year-old, saying the man deserved to die.

35.3k

Jun 17th 2013, 8:49 AM

# Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart search expedition finds 'debris field' off Pacific island

High-res footage has revealed “a scattering of man-made objects” in location consistent with 1937 photo which sparked search.

9.1k

Aug 20th 2012, 7:16 PM

# Flooding

In photos: Philippines battered by Typhoon Saola

At least eight killed and tens of thousands displaced by Pacific storm.

3.9k

Jul 31st 2012, 11:55 AM

# Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart search project prepares to launch new expedition

New search will focus on area of underwater reef along the Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro.

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Jul 2nd 2012, 12:42 PM

# Denis O'Brien

Denis O'Brien's Digicel hits profits of more that $1bn

It’s the first time the telecoms group has reached profits of this level. It operates across the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific.

2.7k

Jun 6th 2012, 1:40 PM

# Tsunami

Football washes up on Alaskan island a year after Japan's tsunami

Football travelled over 5,000km after a tsunami struck the north-eastern coast of Japan in March 2011.

2.8k

Apr 23rd 2012, 12:52 PM

# Ghost ship

'Ghost ship' from Japan tsunami spotted off Canada

The fishing vessel has spent the last year drifting all the way across the Pacific with nobody on board.

6.9k

Mar 26th 2012, 8:28 AM

# Amelia Earhart

Fresh search for Amelia Earhart and navigator 75 years after disappearance

Earhart and Fred Noonan went missing over the Pacific in 1937, but the remains of their aircraft have never been found.

6.1k

Mar 20th 2012, 4:06 PM

# Japan

WATCH: Tsunami debris spreading across the Pacific towards Hawaii

Homes, boats, cars, household appliances and other objects were washed into the ocean following the tsunami last year. This animated model shows how it is still moving across the Pacific.

8.6k

Mar 11th 2012, 8:15 AM

# Kiribati

Pacific island nation considers moving over climate change fears

Kiribatis president says some villages have already been relocated because of rising the sea level.

6.5k

Mar 9th 2012, 12:40 PM

# Review 2011

In pictures: the natural disasters of 2011

Last year saw a number of major natural disasters strike, including earthquakes in Japan, New Zealand and Turkey, volcanic eruptions in Chile and Iceland, and severe tropical storms in Asia.

6.8k

Dec 28th 2011, 6:50 PM

# Mexico

Seven bodies dumped at Mexico resort town bus stop

At least 20 people were killed over the weekend in Mexico, according to police reports.

646

Oct 3rd 2011, 10:04 AM

# Chile

Popular TV host among 21 killed as Chilean air force plane crashes

Chilean television personality Felipe Camiroaga was flying to the island to do a program on the reconstruction of Juan Fernandez island following an earthquake and tsunami last year.

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Sep 3rd 2011, 12:35 PM

# Sweatshops

Sixty big name brands continuing to use sweatshop labour

A lobby group has examined 83 factories across Indonesia, Sri Lanka and The Philippines and found “widespread violations and abuses of workers’ rights”.

158k

May 3rd 2011, 3:39 PM

# Digicel

O’Brien to sell Digicel firms to world’s richest man

Denis O’Brien’s Honduras and El Salvador telecommunications businesses are to be acquired by Mexican businessman Carlos Slim – recently named as the world’s richest man by Forbes.

1.3k

Mar 14th 2011, 3:10 PM

Evening Wrap

The 5 at 5 5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock.

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Mar 11th 2011, 5:03 PM