In December 1776, following defeats in New York and New Jersey, when the American cause seemed all but lost, Thomas Paine ...

There are underwater ticking time bombs in the North and Baltic seas—both literally and figuratively. In the straightforward sense, actual bombs litter the ocean waters along the coast of Germany.

Nachi was one of Japan’s powerful Myōkō class heavy cruisers, armed with ten eight inch guns and Type 93 Long Lance torpedoes ...

Adam Air Flight 782 became a terrifying case of a small maintenance shortcut turning into a major navigation failure. After one faulty unit was swapped and the other quietly took over mid-flight, the ...

The first USS Juneau was a light cruiser that was struck and sunk by a Japanese torpedo in 1942, killing all but 10 of the ...

Archaeologists have discovered the wreck of the Hōfuku Maru — the final resting place of 1,000 British and Dutch POWs captured in Singapore during World War II.

Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Thursday (July 2, 2026) ...

American service members have wrapped up a three-week mission to dispose of unexploded wartime ordnance in Papua New Guinea alongside teammates from six other nations. Operation Render Safe, which ran ...

The Yemeni militia group, which is backed by Iran, said it would impose a partial blockade in the waterway, a move that would further strangle supply routes and aggravate the conflict in the Mideast.

“We will not stand idly by in the face of the unjust siege imposed on our people and the peoples of the axis of jihad and resistance in Palestine, Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq.” The Houthis have ...