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

Efforts to relocate about 10,000 people on flooding-threatened Nauru illustrate a gap in global adaptation funding estimated ...

THE world’s former richest island per capita has gone bust after its residents splashed out on supercars and corruption ran rife. The fall from grace suffered by the oval-shaped country of Nauru ...

To help meet the cost of moving about 10,000 residents from low-lying homes menaced by rising sea levels and floods, the ...

The island is selling the passports as part of a fundraiser to help cover the costs of moving residents out of areas affected ...

Rights groups on Monday denounced an Australian plan to send three violent foreign criminals -- including a murderer -- to ...

Under the offshore processing regime, they were detained on Christmas Island and then sent to Nauru, where they remained to rot. The detention conditions on Nauru were inhuman, degrading and lethal.

There were reports of luxury cars like Ferraris and Lamborghinis being imported, even though the island had few proper roads ...