The Latest Breaking News from New Guinea

Philip Mehrtens was captured early Tuesday by separatist fighters

Alliances are as old as civilisation. Older, actually: almost every hunter-gatherer band that anthropologists have studied, from the New Guinea highlanders to the Yanomamo in the Amazon, made alliances with other groups to try to protect themselves.

The Orchids’ second appearance in a women’s World Cup kicks off against Canada at Headingley on November 1.

A successful Papua New Guinea businessman believed he had consent under a cultural marriage when he kissed a 15-year-old girl, a Brisbane court has heard.

Warning: this article contains descriptions of sexual and colonial violence.

At just 15 years old, Willie Flinn is leading an expedition to investigate the site of an Australian plane that crashed into the Papua New Guinean jungle during World War II.

Quake kills three while another 6.1-magnitude tremor reported from Indonesia

The U.S. Geological Survey has detected a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in northeastern Papua New Guinea

A single, pregnant rodent floating on driftwood across the treacherous waters between Asia and New Guinea 8.5 million years ago may be behind the eventual colonisation of native rodents in Australia, our new research suggests.