The United States Coastguard has called off the search for six young people who went missing off the coast of Kiribati a week ago.
The group, which includes two 19-year-old boys and four girls aged eight, nine, 12 and 14, set out on a three-metre canoe towing a smaller dinghy to collect palm leaves, and are thought to have drifted out to sea.
The coastguard says a Hercules aircraft covered about 16,000 square kilometers in three days of searching.
It says the search has been suspended pending any further developments.
