However, it was quickly revealed to be an uninhabited island covered ... the Republic of Kiribati in the South Pacific, the BBC reported at the time. The island, which is a coral atoll, has ...

For much of the 20th century, phosphate mining was Nauru’s golden ticket. It was discovered in the early 1900s and was ...

Nauru, a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean, was once the wealthiest country in the world in terms of GDP per capita, with its ...

Nauru, a tiny island country in Micronesia, was once one of the wealthiest nations in the world in terms of GDP per capita, ...

I’m drawn from my bed at dawn, lured by something deep and impossible to ignore – an evolutionary impulse, perhaps – to the ...

That’s where guano and hundreds of uninhabited Pacific islands came in. The entire exercise was codified in The Guano Islands Act of 1865. It “enabled citizens of the United States to take ...

ISLAMABAD – Standing with Israel’s visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint press meet on February 5, 2025, US President Donald Trump spoke about taking over and owning Gaza and ...

Fourteen Pacific island nations will receive $107 million to adapt their tuna-dependent economies as climate change pushes ...

"My name was on a handwritten piece of paper," she told the ABC. Ms Kanas was part of the Miss Pacific Islands beauty pageant held last weekend. The event, this year hosted by Solomon Islands ...

Palau, a tiny island nation in Micronesia, is famous for its mushroom-shaped Rock Islands and spectacular diving ...