Up to 100 live bottlenose dolphins can be exported from the Solomon Islands every year, and the government is encouraging residents to enter into the lucrative trade, the fisheries minister said today.

Relief workers reported the first signs of disease today among survivors of a devastating earthquake and tsunami in the Solomon Islands.

Survivors picked through ruined stores today in a desperate search for drinking water and food in a Solomon Islands town devastated by a tsunami, as an international relief effort made tentative first steps.

A massive undersea earthquake sent a tsunami crashing into the South Pacific nation of Solomon Islands today, destroying at least one town and killing eight people, including six children, officials said.

Two Solomon Islands Cabinet ministers were refused bail today so they could leave prison to take up their posts, the nation’s Magistrate’s Court ruled.