A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck early Sunday in the western Pacific off Papua New Guinea, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Authorities in Papua New Guinea said Sunday it may be time to shift from rescue to recovery mode in their search for 98 people who remain unaccounted for in last week's ferry sinking.
Some 246 survivors have been rescued in the aftermath the sinking of a passenger ferry off the east coast of Papua New Guinea, authorities said Friday.
Rescuers plucked more than 200 survivors from the sea after a passenger ship sunk off the east coast of Papua New Guinea, a spokeswoman for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said Thursday.
Carly Lusk of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority discusses the search for survivors after a ferry sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea.
The head of the Papua New Guinea military has been freed from detention by rebel soldiers, the Australian government said Thursday, as an attempted mutiny appeared to unravel.
A big landslide has ripped through a village in a remote area of Papua New Guinea, killing at least 40 people and leaving 20 others missing, authorities said Wednesday.
The world's smallest vertebrate -- animals that have a backbone -- is a frog that could sit within the confines of your fingernail, a new study reports.
This is starting to sound like a broken record, but once again, 2011 was an incredibly safe year for commercial air travel.
Some parts of Papua New Guinea were without power Wednesday after a major earthquake rocked the area.
An Airlines PNG turboprop aircraft crashed near a coastal city in Papua New Guinea on Thursday, leaving a number of people unaccounted for, the airline said.
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rattled Papua New Guinea early Friday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
A preliminary 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Monday morning off the coast of Papua New Guinea, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The son of the acting prime minister of Papua New Guinea faces murder charges after a waitress was found dead with her throat slit at the leader's home, authorities said Thursday.
The remains of a Massachusetts airman missing in action from World War II have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.
The U.S. Department of Defense on Thursday identified remains discovered in the South Pacific seven years ago as those of 11 airmen who had been missing since World War II.
An overlooked female pinkie bone put in storage after it was discovered in a Siberian cave two years ago points to the existence of a previously unknown prehistoric human species, anthropologists say.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 struck the island of Papua New Guinea early Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea early Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck a remote area of Papua New Guinea early Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook the New Britain region of Papua New Guinea, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Two earthquakes with magnitudes of 6.9 and 7.3, respectively, struck in the New Britain Region of Papua New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific ocean Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea Sunday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Scientists have discovered a new species of giant rat in a remote rainforest in Papua New Guinea.
All 13 people aboard a small plane that crashed in Papua New Guinea were killed, the airline said Wednesday.
A plane carrying 13 people -- including nine passengers from Australia -- went missing on its way from Port Moresby to Kokoda in Papua New Guinea, the Australia Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
Experts have warned that the richly diverse coral reefs of the Coral Triangle around southeast Asia will disappear by the end of the century if action is not taken against climate change.
CNN's Kristie Lu Stout speaks with Nancy Knowlton who is representing the United States at the World Ocean Conference.
It's a country where tribal divisions and allegiances are deep-seated and has more than 700 native tongues, but with the help of conservation groups local communities and the government of Papua New Guinea have come together to create the country's first national conservation area.
An Internet auction to sell off the plaster cast that New Zealand Prime Minister John Key wore when he broke his right arm has raised close to NZ$ 20,000 for charity.
A woman in rural Papua New Guinea was bound and gagged, tied to a log and set ablaze on a pile of tires this week, possibly because villagers suspected her of being a witch, police said Thursday.
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ITN's Bill Neely takes us to Sumatra, Indonesia, where precious rainforests are dying at human hands.
Officials in Papua New Guinea are investigating claims by an HIV-positive woman that people with AIDS were buried alive by their relatives when they became too sick to care for, an official said Tuesday.
Two large back-to-back earthquakes centered in the region of the Solomon Islands triggered a tsunami warning Sunday for a huge part of the Pacific including Australia and Indonesia.
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Earthquakes slammed the Pacific nations of Papua New Guinea and Tonga on Sunday, a day after a 6.3-magnitude quake hit Indonesia, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Emergency food aid is arriving in two hard-hit districts of central Java, two days after a large earthquake flattened communities in this heavily populated Indonesian region.
Thousands of Australians and New Zealanders have gathered across the globe to commemorate their war dead in annual ANZAC Day memorial services and marches.
Vancouver is the world's most desirable place to live, according to a new survey, while Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby is at the other end of the scale.
A major earthquake has rocked Papua New Guinea, registering a magnitude 7.3, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Two lost fishermen from the Pacific nation of Kiribati have been rescued after surviving 57 days in rough seas.
Australia is rushing extra troops to the Solomon Islands following the shooting Wednesday of an Australian police officer on patrol in the capital Honiara.
More than 9,000 people will be evacuated from a tiny Papua New Guinea island starting from Friday as a volcanic eruption continues and heavy falls of ash destroy crops and pollute water supplies, local media said.
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While U.S. authorities and EU airlines test security schemes that allow frequent flyers to escape airport delays, the Asia Pacific region is already ahead of the game.
Eight Australian officials are preparing to leave for Papua New Guinea as part of their government's Enhanced Co-Operation Program to improve economic management and law and order.
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