Death, as it must to all men, came in a bursting bomb to a king of whom most people had never heard. Through London, last fortnight, news finally reached the world that King John Sydney Clunies ...

While the Cocos (Keeling) Islands are about to mark the 40th anniversary of a vote to integrate with Australia, longstanding issues of inequality make the milestone far from celebratory.

From the 1820s to 1978, members of the Clunie-Ross family controlled the islands and the copra produced from local coconuts. Annexed by the UK in 1857, the Cocos Islands were transferred to the ...

The Cocos Islands are a group of 27 atolls with a height of just five meters. The territory is threatened by coastal erosion ...

In 1826, English adventurer Alexander Hare settled the Cocos-Keeling Islands, along with his harem and his slaves. He abandoned them when he left the island in 1831, following conflict with ...

A mind-boggling 400 million pieces of trash – that's 260 tons – were recently discovered on the beaches of the remote Cocos Keeling Islands, a chain some 1,300 miles northwest of Australia.

The Cocos Keeling Islands make up barely 6 square miles in the Indian Ocean. It's a good place to measure debris because almost no one lives there. Scientists were flabbergasted by what they found.

Like many island nations, Cocos Islands – a group of 27 small atolls that lie 2,936km (1,824 miles) west of Australia – are increasingly threatened by coastal erosion and rising sea levels ...

Residents on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands have been warned that homes are under threat after a tidal surge slammed one of the ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30. -- It is believed that by this time the $30,000,000 treasure of Cocos Island is safe on board the British cruiser Amphion.

Cocos Island, situated off the coast of Central America, is popularly supposed to be thickly planted with bags of treasure, left there by the ancient bucaneers and freebooters who plundered the ...

An estimated 414 million items of debris, weighing about 238 tons, have been deposited onto the islands, researchers said. About 25% consists of disposable plastics, such as straws, bags and ...