China’s navy is to carry out military exercises in the Pacific Ocean, officials say, amid continuing maritime disputes in the region.

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Each stop on President Obama’s Pacific trip — Hawaii, Australia and Indonesia — took him to places he had known as a child and young man.

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Reporter’s Notebook: President Obama at Ease on Foreign Trip to Old Haunts

President Obama will be far from Washington this week meeting with Pacific Rim allies, but on Sunday he weighed in on simmering domestic issues.

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Far From Washington, Obama Defends His Policies

MIAMI — Hurricane Jova has strengthened to a major storm in the Pacific as it heads toward Mexico’s coast. Jova’s maximum sustained winds Monday are near 120 mph (195 kph) with some additional strengthening forecast in the next day or so. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Jova could reach Category 4 strength later in the day. Read full article > >

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Hurricane Jova becomes a major storm in the Pacific as it heads toward Mexico’s coast

A Mall tourist itinerary, circa 2050. Here’s one way it could look: Day One: Zoom to the top of the Washington Monument, stroll over to the Asian American Museum, then swing by the German American Museum. Day Two: Take in the Italian American Museum, then the Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders Museum and finish up with a rousing spin through the Museum of the Irish American People. Read full article > >

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Proposed ‘melting pot’ of American history: One museum over all?

A Mall tourist itinerary, circa 2050. Here’s one way it could look: Day One: Zoom to the top of the Washington Monument, stroll over to the Asian American Museum, then swing by the German American Museum. Day Two: Take in the Italian American Museum, then the Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders Museum and finish up with a rousing spin through the Museum of the Irish American People. Read full article > >

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Tina Chovanec knew that moving to the D.C. area from the Pacific Northwest would entail some lifestyle changes. Shrinking her commute to under five minutes was not one she expected. Chovanec didn’t have a job lined up when she and her husband, Stephen, sold their house in Oregon and rented a condominium in the Village at Shirlington, a 15-minute bus ride from Stephen’s new job across Arlington in Crystal City. But she bested his travel time when she landed a job as a literacy educator with WETA, three blocks from their new home. Read full article > >

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Where We Live: Walkable, dog-friendly Shirlington

A nurse who was one of the first women to row the Atlantic is going to compete in the wortld’s longest yacht race across the Pacific.

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Nurse plans to sail Pacific Ocean

Nasa says its falling, six-tonne UARS satellite entered the earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean early on Saturday.

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Nasa satellite falls over Pacific

The small community of Aitutaki on one of the Cook Islands in the Pacific is left reeling by its first ever bank robbery.

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Pacific isle ‘in shock’ after first bank raid

A new type of eel that inhabits undersea caves in the Pacific Ocean is dubbed a “living fossil” because of its primitive features.

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New Pacific eel a ‘living fossil’

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 struck off the Pacific coast of northern Japan early Thursday, Japanese and U.S. seismologists reported.

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Magnitude 6.7 quake rattles Japan

How many fish can we harvest to feed growing populations without entirely depleting ocean reserves? What kind of damage did last year’s oil spill actually cause to the Gulf of Mexico’s wildlife? And when is it safest to swim in waters that man-eating sharks sometimes haunt? The way to find out: Attach electronic tags to ocean-going creatures and send them out to do the research. That’s what a team of researchers did in a decade-long project that has shone unprecedented light under the waters of the world’s biggest ocean — the Pacific — and proved the value of methodology that can be adapted to unlock key secrets of the deep elsewhere around the world. Read full article > >

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West Coast boasts underwater Serengeti, study finds

Scientists embark on an expedition in the Pacific to find ways of curbing the damaging toll of tuna fishing, which is bringing some species to the brink of extinction.

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Ship sails towards ‘green’ tuna

On the cover of his memoir, Rob Lowe, pictured in a black-and-white head shot worthy of Vogue, shields his eyes with his hands, as though he’s staring into a golden Pacific sunset. His hair is thick and dark, his nose perfectly straight, his jaw chiseled and covered with stubble that’s mostly pepper, but with a perfectly judged dash of salt.

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Rob Lowe’s memoir “Stories I Only Tell My Friends”