Sgt. Ross F. Gray carried a satchel charge though a minefield while under heavy Japanese fire. What followed became one of ...

They will search for remains of four U.S. soldiers, including a general who became a hero after his refusal to obey Japanese ...

Mercury Aircraft, Corning Glass Works and Gunlocke were among the businesses that boomed in Steuben County during wartime.

A routine bail hearing at the Supreme Court of India took an unusual turn when a bench led by Justice Vikram Nath expressed ...

The year ahead will show whether Fiji’s political old guard can cede to a new generation, or if it will merely continue ...

In 1945, U.S. forces dumped tanks, jeeps, trucks, rifles, and supplies into the sea at Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. Known today as Million Dollar Point, this World War II site is an underwater graveyard ...

Countries responsible for climate change could be required to pay “full and prompt reparation” for the damage they have caused, under a new United Nations resolution being pursued by the Pacific ...

In the spring of 1943, the newly commissioned Capt. Glenn Miller was stationed in New Haven, Conn., where he was assembling what would become his last great band, the Army Air Forces Training Command ...

Taro is a traditional food of Vanuatu, and its culture over millennia has resulted in several hundred indigenous varieties. But cassava is more commonly grown nowadays, even as communities rely ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Cheryl W. Thompson about her book, "Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen," which chronicles Black World War II pilots who were lost in combat. The ...