# pacific - Thursday 19 September, 2019
# Pool D
From The42
# Pool D
The Australia coach was reluctant to suggest that the duo could also start together against Wales in week two.
# pacific - Thursday 28 February, 2019
# Global Season
From The42
# Global Season
There was no place for Fiji, Samoa or Tonga in the proposed tournament, with emerging TV markets Japan and USA preferred.
# pacific - Wednesday 24 October, 2018
# Storm
# Storm
The eye of the storm was on the edge of the Mexican coast overnight.
# pacific - Friday 28 September, 2018
# Micronesia
# Micronesia
It said there were no serious injuries; the airline didn’t specify what caused the accident.
# pacific - Sunday 9 September, 2018
# OCEAN CLEAN UP
# OCEAN CLEAN UP
The ambitious project hopes to clean up half of an infamous garbage patch within five years.
# pacific - Tuesday 13 February, 2018
# Cyclone Gita
# Cyclone Gita
Cyclone Gita caused power outages after tearing through the island nation just south of the capital.
# pacific - Wednesday 22 March, 2017
# Try Try Again
# Try Try Again
North Korea is under several sets of United Nations sanctions over its atomic and ballistic missile programmes.
# pacific - Thursday 23 February, 2017
# Chance Discovery
# Chance Discovery
The boy was found along with three fishermen in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
# pacific - Thursday 8 December, 2016
# USA
# USA
Seismologists said that no major tsunami threat was expected.
# pacific - Saturday 27 August, 2016
# Cast Away
# Cast Away
The men were stranded for about 8 days.
# pacific - Friday 16 October, 2015
# Baby On Board
# Baby On Board
Six flight attendants wearing surgical masks can be seen
# pacific - Wednesday 1 April, 2015
# Pacific
# Pacific
More than 70 years later, remains have been recovered.
# pacific - Sunday 25 January, 2015
# The Aviator
# The Aviator
Earhart disappeared in 1937 while attempting to circumnavigate the world.
# pacific - Thursday 8 January, 2015
# Huge Wave
# Huge Wave
Rescuers have plucked 94 people from the sea so far.
# pacific - Friday 5 December, 2014
# Splash-land
# Splash-land
The craft flew further and faster than any capsule built for humans since the Apollo moon program — 42 years ago.
# pacific - Sunday 13 April, 2014
# Valparaiso
# Valparaiso
The military has taken over security in the city of Valparaiso.
# pacific - Tuesday 4 February, 2014
# Adrift
# Adrift
Fisherman Jose Salvador Alvarenga said he thought about suicide during his 13 months adrift in the Pacific .
# pacific - Monday 3 February, 2014
# Sail Away
# Sail Away
Jose Ivan said he had set sail from Mexico on Christmas Eve, 2012.
# pacific - Sunday 2 February, 2014
# Eruption
# Eruption
Victims were covered by scorching clouds during the eruption.
# pacific - Saturday 1 February, 2014
# At Sea
# At Sea
The man washed up on Thursday and said he has been floating in the Pacific since September 2012.
# pacific - Friday 16 August, 2013
# Earthquake
# Earthquake
No tsunami warning has been issued after a 6.5 magnitude temblor hit the country’s South Island.
# pacific - Monday 17 June, 2013
# Papua New Guinea
# Papua New Guinea
Community leaders in the village in Papua New Guinea have protected the 18-year-old, saying the man deserved to die.
# pacific - Monday 20 August, 2012
# Amelia Earhart
# Amelia Earhart
High-res footage has revealed “a scattering of man-made objects” in location consistent with 1937 photo which sparked search.
# pacific - Tuesday 31 July, 2012
# Flooding
# Flooding
At least eight killed and tens of thousands displaced by Pacific storm.
# pacific - Monday 2 July, 2012
# Amelia Earhart
# Amelia Earhart
New search will focus on area of underwater reef along the Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro.
# pacific - Wednesday 6 June, 2012
# Denis O'Brien
# Denis O'Brien
It’s the first time the telecoms group has reached profits of this level. It operates across the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific .
# pacific - Monday 23 April, 2012
# Tsunami
# Tsunami
Football travelled over 5,000km after a tsunami struck the north-eastern coast of Japan in March 2011.
# pacific - Monday 26 March, 2012
# Ghost Ship
# Ghost Ship
The fishing vessel has spent the last year drifting all the way across the Pacific with nobody on board.
# pacific - Tuesday 20 March, 2012
# Amelia Earhart
# Amelia Earhart
Earhart and Fred Noonan went missing over the Pacific in 1937, but the remains of their aircraft have never been found.
# pacific - Sunday 11 March, 2012
# Japan
# Japan
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 .
# pacific - Friday 9 March, 2012
# Kiribati
# Kiribati
Kiribatis president says some villages have already been relocated because of rising the sea level.
# pacific - Wednesday 28 December, 2011
# Review 2011
# Review 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.
# pacific - Monday 3 October, 2011
# Mexico
# Mexico
At least 20 people were killed over the weekend in Mexico, according to police reports.
# pacific - Saturday 3 September, 2011
# Chile
# Chile
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.
# pacific - Tuesday 3 May, 2011
# Sweatshops
# Sweatshops
A lobby group has examined 83 factories across Indonesia, Sri Lanka and The Philippines and found “widespread violations and abuses of workers’ rights”.
# pacific - Monday 14 March, 2011
# Digicel
From Business ETC
# Digicel
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.
# pacific - Friday 11 March, 2011
# Japan Earthquake
# Japan Earthquake
In video: how tourists and the residents of Japan experienced today’s earthquake.
# Pacific
# Pacific
Indonesia and Guam have both lifted their tsunami warnings, after waves of just 10 centimetres hit the eastern Indonesian coast.
# Hawaii Tsunami
# Hawaii Tsunami
Tsunami warning centre explains that a tsunami is not always just one wall of water but a constantly-encroaching sheet of water that will swamp coastal regions.
Variable clouds with a couple of showers
Max: 18 °C
Min: 10 °C
Rather cloudy with a brief shower or two
Max: 17 °C
Min: 11 °C
