The US Missile Defence Agency has announced a failed test of its controversial Groundbased Midcourse Defence interceptor.

President Obama has proposed a budget of $457.7 million for the Office of Insular Affairs in fiscal year 2011.

A US missile defence test designed to shoot down long-range missiles was aborted when the radar system failed.

A recent test of the US Missile Defense System failed, according to the Missile Defense Agency, a branch of the US Department of Defense.

The botched $150 million test over the Pacific Ocean coincided with a Pentagon report that Iran had expanded its ballistic missile capabilities and posed a "significant" threat to U.S. and allied forces in the Middle East region .

Copenhagen Accord recycles old climate commitments, leaving the world heading for catastrophic climate change 31 January 2010 Amsterdam , Netherlands - With the passing of the Copenhagen Accord's 31 January deadline for its supporters to submit their pledges to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the absence of strengthened commitments has failed to ...

The Obama administration pledged Thursday that the United States would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by "in the range of" 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, an expected step that nevertheless bolsters the global warming deal brokered in the final hours of the Copenhagen climate talks last month.

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency has instructed its air unit to patrol the waters off Pengerang near here to prevent illegal oil transfers and other maritime crimes, which are becoming n rampant in the area.

Publisher Benjamin "Buddy" Bess, left, and director David DeLuca are diversifying Bess Press while remaining true to its core business - books about Hawaii.

PEARL CITY A- The Hawai'i State Laboratory will test up to 4,800 suspected flu specimens from six Pacific island nations and territories as part of a one-year contract from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of Public Health Laboratories.

Geography Area: 181 sq. km. of land area scattered over 750,000 sq. mi. of the Western Pacific.

Seeking to do something for someone else, Katrina Steinhorst of Green Bay is one of 37 teachers experiencing a year in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Peter Rudiak-Gould has just spent a year living on a remote, picture-postcard Pacific island, 70 miles from the nearest telephone, car or shop.

Carmen Chong Gum, consul of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, speaks Thursday during a news conference at the Jones Center for Families in Springdale.

Chicago Adventure Travel Examiner rates this: photo courtesy of Peter Rudiak-Gould and Sterling Publishing Co.

The first US hydrogen bomb test is shown in the Pacific at Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands on 1 November 1952.

A 1st Circuit Court judge in Honolulu ruled this week that the Hawaii Department of Human Services illegally cut immigrants' access to state-funded medical benefits by trying to launch a new basic health plan for low-income noncitizens.

Paradise on the front line of global warming By Christopher Johnson MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Perhaps more than anywhere else on Earth, the catastrophic fear of rising seas hits home when flying into Majuro atoll, a narrow strip of land in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean.

SURVIVING PARADISE: One Year on a Disappearing Island By Peter Rudiak-Gould Union Square, 256 pp., $21.95 Peter Rudiak-Gould was only 21 when he signed on to spend a year teaching English on Ujae, a tiny atoll in the Marshall Islands.

The Department of the Interior's National Park Service is awarding $46.5 million in historic preservation grants to 59 states and U.S. territories, according to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Friday Of the amount, the CNMI will get $409,971; American Samoa, $395,634; FSM, $408,430; Guam, $408,291; Palau, $236,704; Hawaii, $571,458; Puerto Rico, ...