Papua New Guinea

Rescuers were pulling bodies from the debris of a landslide that struck mountainous central Papua New Guinea, a disaster official said Wednesday, with reports saying as many as 60 people were dead or missing.

A 17-year-old village boy has been gang raped by 10 knife wielding women in Papua New Guinea, police say.

A new study of 50,000-year-old campsites in Papua New Guinea could change the history of "modern" humans, an Otago University anthropologist says.

The family of a former Dunedin man who escaped injury in an aircraft crash which claimed four lives - including that of another New Zealander - is breathing a sigh of relief.

The New Zealand High Commissioner and Australian government officials are on their way to a remote plane crash site in Papua New Guinea where one New Zealander and three Australians died.