A male teenager was revived after not breathing for about 15 minutes following a motorbike accident on Saturday morning.

The only two women leaders of Pacific Forum countries have again called for a greater focus on gender inequality and especially supporting the rights of women and children.

The locals call it ‘Timeless Tuvalu’ because the only sense of time they follow is the rising and falling of the sun and the tides that come in and out on their shores.

Tuvalu famously owns the internet domain “.tv”. But it’s been more than 15 years since a local television station was broadcast in the small island country.

Cook Islands Prime Minister Henry Puna says having established diplomatic relations with Indonesia just recently means that he now has that basis to engage positively with them, rather sitting on the outside and throwing stones.

Despite differences between the nations, Henry Puna says Cook Islands is set to receive many benefits from strengthening diplomatic relationships with Australia and Fiji.

Peoples from all around the Pacific have been able to engage each other with language and culture and exchange a rich sense of community at the Pacific Islands Forum.

Today a mass of journalists with cameras, mobile phones and recorders surrounded the Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern.