That squiggly line through the Pacific where days begin and end has no legal authority and technically doesn’t exist. By Mike Ives The writer, who lives in South Korea, has reported from Kiribati, a ...

The International Date Line (IDL) is one of the weirdest things on the map—it’s not a straight line at all! It zigzags to avoid splitting countries, islands, and even some communities into different ...

QUEENSLAND, Australia — Under the cover of darkness, more than 350 U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 11th Airborne Division landed in the training area near northeastern Australia, in the early ...