Several aeroplane passengers were stunned to see a real snake attached to the wing of their plane.

A strong earthquake has struck the South Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea.

A strong magnitude-6.7 earthquake has rattled Papua New Guinea.

A strong earthquake has struck the South Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea.

MELBOURNE has edged out long-time front-runner Vancouver to be rated the world’s most liveable city, a worldwide survey from the Economist Intelligence Unit said yesterday.

A FORMER Newstalk reporter from Cork who was the victim of a car-jacking in the southwest Pacific country of Papua New Guinea says she was introduced to the “vicious side of the country”.

Officials say a possible crash site has been located for the charter plane carrying 13 people – including nine Australians – which went missing near a popular tourist site in Papua New Guinea today.

A charter plane carrying 13 people, including nine Australians, to a popular tourist site in Papua New Guinea vanished on its approach to an airport today, the airline and Australia's foreign minister said.

In Thailand, Aids activists planned to create the world’s largest “condom chain”. In Papua New Guinea, officials took blood tests to encourage voluntary HIV/Aids testing.

The former prime minister of Papua New Guinea, William Skate, died in an Australian hospital early today. He was 52.

A powerful earthquake shook Papua New Guinea today, the US Geological Survey said.

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck off the northeast coast of the Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea today, the US Geological Survey said.

Thousands of villagers began to evacuate an island in northern Papua New Guinea today after a volcano erupted, spewing ash and rocks over fields of crops and injuring five people.

A plane making an inaugural flight from a Papua New Guinea airstrip slammed into a cliff minutes after takeoff, killing all eight on board, officials said.

A strong earthquake struck offshore just north of Papua New Guinea early today, reportedly killing at least two people and ripping seaside homes from their foundations.

A volcano in northern Papua New Guinea is erupting streams of lava.

Thousands of people have fled an erupting volcano in Papua New Guinea which is spewing ash up to four miles into the air.

The Australian army today began ferrying more than 430 refugees from a container ship to a troop ship, the first stage in a journey that will see them taken to Nauru and New Zealand via Papua New Guinea.

The Australian military was today expected to begin transferring 438 asylum seekers from a cargo vessel off a remote Indian Ocean outpost to a troop ship that will then depart for Papua New Guinea.