Every culture has its own version of the ultimate warrior, and most of them never made it into Western history books. We love to glorify generals and emperors, but the people who actually changed the ...

The Vatican has announced a packed early-2026 travel schedule for Pope Leo XIV, with trips to Monaco, Spain, and four African countries.

Veteran Papua New Guinea journalist Rebecca Kuku said she was assaulted by correctional service officers at the Bomana remand facility after she reported on the living conditions of inmates residing ...

The pygmy possum has a stripe down its back and an unusually long fourth finger, twice as long as the rest of its digits, that it uses to extract insect larvae that bores down into wood. It was last ...

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a collaboration of scientists, indigenous communities and citizen scientists ...

New Guinea is the world’s second-largest island and it’s divided between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. The western half, known today as Papua and West Papua, became part of Indonesia after a complex ...

In the Middle East, hardly any of today’s national entities are older than a century or so; most of them were for thousands of years mere provinces within a succession of empires, from the Bronze Age ...

Taruga Minerals has engaged specialist aeromagnetic consultants to unlock the geological understanding of its PNG copper-gold ...

The Raja Ampat islands in Indonesia's Southwest Papua province are a marine biodiversity hotspot and a divers' paradise.

JAKARTA, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Three people were killed and several injured in shootings in two areas of Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua, including near the operations of gold and copper miner ...

Otis Worldwide Corporation (NYSE: OTIS), the world's leading elevator and escalator manufacturing, installation, service and modernization company, has announced the appointment of Hemant Jolly as ...

Taruga Minerals has kicked off boots-on-ground exploration at its Weioko Gold District in PNG, chasing repeat gold systems across an 8km strike with multiple priority targets now in play.