The Cook Islands, a group of 15 small islands in the Pacific Ocean, have been closely tied to New Zealand for decades. Though the Cook Islands govern their own internal matters, they still rely ...

For over a decade, China secretly turned an artificial island in the South China Sea into a large military base comparable to an unsinkable aircraft carrier. Mischief Reef was a low-tide, ring-shaped ...

China appears to have built a new prototype of a mostly ignored military aircraft; a Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIG) plane. Also commonly known by the Russian word ekranoplan, it's a type of aircraft ...