Eastern Pacific Ocean

A fire raged through Easter Island in Chile in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean that burned all the landscape, harming a number of the 1,000 Moai statues there.

The Navy has increased its surveillance missions and operational deployment in the Indian Ocean region in the wake of India's seven-week bitter border standoff with China in eastern Ladakh, people familiar with the development said.

More than 1,200 people have been evacuated from their homes to escape a gurgling volcano in eastern Indonesia spewing clouds of ash and toxic gas into the air.

Hurricane Olaf strengthened Sunday as it churned far offshore in the eastern Pacific, US forecasters said, warning it was on track to become more powerful.

Hurricane Olaf has formed far offshore in the eastern Pacific, US forecasters said today.

Heavy rain and strong winds began to hit the eastern Philippines today ahead of a giant storm threatening more devastation to areas yet to recover from a super typhoon that killed thousands.

A new look at research on great white sharks in the eastern north part of the Pacific Ocean indicates the population is likely growing rather than endangered, according to an international research team.

The European Space Agency says one of its research satellites re-entered the Earth's atmosphere early Monday on an orbit that passed over Siberia, the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Ocean and Antarctica.

The key benchmark indices continued their uptrend to hit fresh intraday highs as strong US housing data boosted world stocks. Strong services sector data for May 2010 also underpinned sentiment. The market breadth was strong. Cement extended Wednesday's gains on strong sales in the month of May 2010. FMCG stocks also edged higher. All the sectoral ...

The market may extend Wednesday (2 June 2010)'s 1% gains on strong global cues. Trading in S&P CNX Nifty index futures on the Singapore stock exchange indicated that the Nifty could rise 53 points at the opening bell. The government will unveil data on some wholesale price indices for the year through 22 May 2010 viz. the food price index, the prim...

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook Tokyo and other areas in eastern Japan on Friday, the meteorological agency said.The quake took place at 9:46 am (0046 GMT), and caused buildings to sway in Tokyo. The epicentre of the earthquake was in the Pacific off the coast of Ibaraki prefecture, some 130 kilometres from the Capital, according to the Japanese a...

A fire raged through Easter Island in Chile in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean that burned all the landscape, harming a number of the 1,000 Moai statues there.

The Navy has increased its surveillance missions and operational deployment in the Indian Ocean region in the wake of India's seven-week bitter border standoff with China in eastern Ladakh, people familiar with the development said.

More than 1,200 people have been evacuated from their homes to escape a gurgling volcano in eastern Indonesia spewing clouds of ash and toxic gas into the air.

Hurricane Olaf strengthened Sunday as it churned far offshore in the eastern Pacific, US forecasters said, warning it was on track to become more powerful.

Hurricane Olaf has formed far offshore in the eastern Pacific, US forecasters said today.

Heavy rain and strong winds began to hit the eastern Philippines today ahead of a giant storm threatening more devastation to areas yet to recover from a super typhoon that killed thousands.

A new look at research on great white sharks in the eastern north part of the Pacific Ocean indicates the population is likely growing rather than endangered, according to an international research team.

The European Space Agency says one of its research satellites re-entered the Earth's atmosphere early Monday on an orbit that passed over Siberia, the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Ocean and Antarctica.

The key benchmark indices continued their uptrend to hit fresh intraday highs as strong US housing data boosted world stocks. Strong services sector data for May 2010 also underpinned sentiment. The market breadth was strong. Cement extended Wednesday's gains on strong sales in the month of May 2010. FMCG stocks also edged higher. All the sectoral ...

The market may extend Wednesday (2 June 2010)'s 1% gains on strong global cues. Trading in S&P CNX Nifty index futures on the Singapore stock exchange indicated that the Nifty could rise 53 points at the opening bell. The government will unveil data on some wholesale price indices for the year through 22 May 2010 viz. the food price index, the prim...

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook Tokyo and other areas in eastern Japan on Friday, the meteorological agency said.The quake took place at 9:46 am (0046 GMT), and caused buildings to sway in Tokyo. The epicentre of the earthquake was in the Pacific off the coast of Ibaraki prefecture, some 130 kilometres from the Capital, according to the Japanese a...