Japanese soldiers were beating a POW to the brink of death... that is until Richard Antrim stepped forward and offered to take the rest of the punishment.

One of the only ways to explore Raja Ampat is in a phinisi. These Indonesian-built sailing ships are constructed in barefoot ...

In 2006, a Boeing 737 with 146 people on board disappeared over the Java Sea after its crew became disoriented and lost control of their navigation systems. What began as a small mistake soon ...

Jan. 9 (UPI) --On this day in history: In 1768, Philip Astley, regarded as the "father of the modern circus," staged the first event in an open field at what is now the Waterloo area of London. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A search and rescue operation looks for Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182, which lost contact after taking off and crashed in the waters ...

Of all the schemes that humans have devised to keep sea lions from gorging on the salmon of the Columbia River basin, none has worked for long. Local officials and researchers have chased sea lions ...

American soldiers dug foxholes into the ridgeline at Djebel Chambi. They had only arrived in North Africa a few weeks ago and faced light resistance from Vichy French troops. The infamous Afrika Korps ...

A $1bn submarine cable system is set to be deployed between Japan and Southeast Asia in a bid to bolster connectivity resilience and support the growing demands of the region’s growing digital economy ...

Java 26, due in March with structured concurrency, lazy constants, AOT object caching, and primitive types in patterns, instanceof, and switch, has entered a second rampdown phase for bug fixes. Java ...

Robert M. Belland – son of Fred and Amelia Belland, who lived east of Waubun, near the McCraney Lake area. He served in the 7th Inf., 3rd Div. and was killed in action at Anzio Beach Head, Italy on ...