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The low-lying Pacific nation of Kiribati is running out of time on climate change as seas rise, and is drafting plans including mass relocation of its people while the world procrastinates on the issue, the country's leader says.

A day after watching a film about being lost at sea, Toakai Teitoi was trapped in his own nightmare, drifting in a wooden boat for 15 weeks -- before a shark helped to rescue him.

In 1765, Frederick County in Maryland became the first colonial entity to repudiate the British Stamp Act.

Kiribati President Anote Tong will present his case at a climate change conference on the main island Tarawa this week attended by vulnerable countries in the region and major powers including China, the United States and Japan.

war's victims ÔReturn to Tarawa' brings back memories, galvanizes search for remains of WWII combat personnel. Caught up in work and family, traffic and economic strife, it's easy to forget what came before. Even a year ago is hard to remember. So when you meet someone with a memory as sharp as Leon Cooper's, it can be jarring. "I was the landing craft officer," says Cooper, who will be 91 soon. "My job was to bring Marines of the Second Division into Red Beach. There was so much smoke and fire, I couldn't tell if I was in Red Beach 1, 2, 3 or 9." This was Tarawa in 1943, the first major allied attempt to retake strategic Pacific islands from the Japanese during World War II. Bullets whizzing by his head, Cooper returned time and again from ships with his boat stocked with more fresh-faced troops.

Military's search for Battle of Tarawa remains shows difficulty of finding war missing. Forensic anthropologist Gregory Fox and his team sifted dirt on the remote Pacific atoll of Tarawa at what they thought might be graves of U.S. Marines and sailors killed in one of World War II's most savage battles.

Mission to Tarawa returns with remains believed to be 2 US servicemen killed in World War II. A U.S. military team returned from the remote Pacific atoll of Tarawa this week with the remains of what are believed to be two U.S. servicemen who died in a fierce World War II battle there.

US returns to Tarawa to search for remains of Marines killed in pivotal World War II battle. The Battle of Tarawa was one of the first U.S. amphibious campaigns of World War II. It was also one of the most ferocious.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Steven Barber's indie World War Two documentary "Return to Tarawa: The Leon Cooper Story" is having a payoff.

Filmmaker says documentary on Balloon Boy's dad could clear him; authorities don't think so. Once Richard Heene admitted in court that he wrongly sent authorities on a wild goose chase across Colorado to save the son he thought was aloft in a runaway balloon, friends and supporters seemed to take off just about as fast as that balloon.

Filmmaker says documentary on Balloon Boy's dad could clear him; authorities don't think so. Once Richard Heene admitted in court that he wrongly sent authorities on a wild goose chase across Colorado to save the son he thought was aloft in a runaway balloon, friends and supporters seemed to take off just about as fast as that balloon.

With survival at stake, islanders seek tough climate action at UN meeting but are gaveled down. Declaring "it's a matter of survival," one of the world's tiniest nations, speaking for imperiled islands everywhere, took on global industrial and oil powers Wednesday at the U.N. climate conference ? and lost.

George H.W. Bush helps dedicate new gallery at Pacific War museum in Texas on Pearl Harbor Day. Former President George H.W. Bush used a large pair of gold scissors Monday to cut a red ribbon and dedicate an expansive new gallery that carries his name at the National Museum of the Pacific War.

Today is Monday, November 23, the 327th day of 2009. There are 38 days left in the year.

Briton attempting to be 1st woman to row solo across Pacific finishes trip's 2nd leg. A British environmentalist attempting to become the first woman to row alone across the Pacific Ocean has completed the second leg of her journey, arriving safely in the tiny South Pacific nation of Kiribati.

Fifteen people have been confirmed dead and 18 are missing after a boat capsized in the Pacific nation of Kiribati last week, police reportedly said Wednesday.