SYDNEY: A powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck the New Britain island of Papua New Guinea on Friday, US seismologists said, but a tsunami threat from the tremor was over. The quake struck at ...
January: Japan invades Burma. Malaya and the Solomon Islands fall. Rabaul, on the New Britain island north of New Guinea, becomes an important Japanese base. February: In the first U.S. carrier ...
Foula in Shetland, Britain's remotest permanently inhabited island, marks Christmas and New Year according to an ancient calendar for the festivity. According to the feast days of the old Julian ...
January: Japan invades Burma. Malaya and the Solomon Islands fall. Rabaul, on the New Britain island north of New Guinea, becomes an important Japanese base. February: In the first U.S. carrier ...