Endurance Cycling Legend Mike Hall Killed By Car Driver At Age 35 This morning, Mike Hall was setting out for the last leg of the Indian Pacific Wheel Race, an unsupported race across Australia, when he was struck and killed by a car outside Canberra. Police say he died at the scene, and organizers called off the r Read more ... ace shortly after. He was 35 years old.

British cyclist Hall dies in accident during Australian race CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Veteran British endurance cyclist Mike Hall died early Friday after being struck by a car during the Indian Pacific Wheel race from Perth to Sydney, eve

See How Pacific Islanders Are Living With Climate Change Global temperatures hit record highs the past three years in a row—and the people of the Pacific have been feeling the effects.

How Pacific are you? This video quiz holds the answer We're neutral, of course. But we understand that deep down, the Pacific is your favorite ocean. Or should be.

The Pacific Rim Comic Has Just the Right Mix of Tragedy and Giant Robots Pacific Rim fans will know that setting any piece of tie-in material before the events of the movie usually can only end up one way: with most of its protagonists and their lovely giant robots dead, leaving Humanity’s defenders on the brink in time Read more ... for the movie. The new Pacific Rim comic knows that too, and uses it to brilliant effect.

U.S. Reaches Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal With 11 Pacific Nations The U.S., Japan and 10 countries around the Pacific reached a historic accord to lower trade barriers to goods and services and set commercial rules of the road for two-fifths of the global economy.

U.S., 11 Pacific Nations Reach TPP Agreement In a victory for the Obama Administration, the U.S., Japan and 10 countries around the Pacific signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership Monday to lower trade barriers. WSJ's Jerry Seib explains on Lunch Break With Tanya Rivero. Photo: Getty

5 Challenges at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations Trade ministers from 12 countries around the Pacific are in the final stretch of resolving sticking points in the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal. Here are five areas that have proved difficult, and why they matter to Japan.

'Pacific Rim' Sequel Put on Indefinite Hold In a bad bad break for kaiju fans, news surfaced Wednesday that there has been yet another setback for the sequel to 'Pacific Rim.'

A Rich, Riveting TV Adaptation Brings Wolf Hall to Life “As some men have an eye for horseflesh or cattle to be fattened,” Hilary Mantel writes in Wolf Hall about Thomas Cromwell, “he has an eye for risk.” The ambitious six-part Masterpiece production of Wolf Hall—adapted by Peter Straughan from Read more ... Mantel’s two Booker-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the...