December 27, 1940—a ship flying Soviet colors approached Nauru. But it was a trap. Germany’s hidden raider, the Komet, opened fire, devastating the island’s vital phosphate operations. It was the only ...

This tiny island nation in the Pacific is offering golden passports and second citizenships to gain money for combating ...

Jack Lohmann is a writer from Richmond, Virginia. "White Light" is his first book, and he joins us to discuss life and ...

At the funeral of 94-year-old Sāmoan ali’i matai Pesetā Misipati Iosefa, Lucy O’Hagan reflects on the intertwining stories of ...

The future looks scary for car owners, as that dramatic upturn in the economy, needed to relax taxation and restrictions on ...

My least favourite country would probably be Nauru [northeast of Australia ... There are no great beaches and there's just a phosphate mine in the centre. The people were very friendly, but ...

Today, the phosphate deposits are exhausted and Nauru is now one of the poorest countries in the world. The country also hit the headlines because Australia ran a refugee camp on the island and ...

Bhojani was serving a sentence of two years and six months by way of an intensive corrections order for bribing Nauruan officials to grant favourable phosphate deals for his company, Radiance ...

Once considered the richest country in the world per capita, Nauru, a small island nation in Micronesia, now faces economic instability. The country was propelled to global attention in the 20th ...