Leaving home is the only option for many as the atoll faces the same fate as five islands that have already disappeared.

A teen's recovery from a second bout of TB is rare bright spot in battle to rein in the disease.

Some 60 per cent of Papua New Guinea's population live in areas where malaria is endemic.

The sisters are a big deal in their village nicknamed the "Golden Village" for the success of the local weightlifters.

Simon Day looks at how sport can help people out of poverty.

Villagers in PNG are changing their own lives, with the assistance of World Vision, reports Clarke Gayford.

Instilling the importance of nutritious food in families is helping improve health in communities blighted by overcrowding.

In the remote Barai village in Madang province, teacher Louis Kumana worries about his school's attendance rate.

International Woman's Day finds efforts to modernise traditional practices improving grim statistics around maternal mortality.

Just one thing going wrong had a devastating effect on an entire village in Papua New Guinea.

The people of Rarata village in the Solomon Islands were walking up to 7km every day to quench their thirst.

In the village of Hanuabada, children swim among soiled nappies and unsafe water kills. But there is hope.

The Herald's latest appeal with World Vision will help our Pacific neighbours.

Overseas associates of missing man John Beckenridge, who abducted his 11-year-old stepson last year, are working with New Zealand police to track the pair down.

7.9 earthquake has struck off Papua New Guinea prompting a tsunami warning, however there have been no reports of injuries.

The tsunami warning for New Zealand followed an earthquake in Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is still the world as it was, discovers Peter Hughes.

The United States has agreed to consider taking refugees from Australian detention centres, Secretary of State John Kerry said at a press conference in New Zealand.

The students say police fired shots directly into the crowd in Port Moresby, who were protesting against Prime Minister Peter O'Neill.

The All Whites crunch semifinal match in Port Moresby will go ahead as planned despite the shooting of students by police in the city today.

PNG is a rare and exotic cruise destination of misty mountains, smoking volcanoes, jungle drums, bare-breasted dancers and shy excited smiles from locals.

The fate of a NZ submariner who vanished with his vessel 101 years ago could finally be settled by a mission in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea.

New Zealand Defence Force engineers and tradies are helping counterparts in Papua New Guinea build a 350km highway that will link more than 100 remote mountain villages.

The eruption of a volcano on a small Papua New Guinean island on July 31 has again wreaked havoc on the lives of its inhabitants.

In April this year, 11 women in Porgera, Enga Province, were awarded undisclosed compensation payments for brutal rapes they suffered over a number of years by members of the mine's security workforce.

Tribal rituals, war relics and the legendary 'Queen of lovemaking and drinking' are just the tip of Rabaul's iceberg, finds Andrew Stone.

Australia's foreign affairs department has revealed it investigated the misuse of Australian aid money in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, East Timor, Afghanistan and Somalia.

A new helpline assisting survivors of sexual and domestic violence in Papua New Guinea has been launched with the help of New Zealanders.

New Zealand won't have a men's football team at the Rio Olympics after they were stripped of their place in tonight's qualifier final.

It will be an extremely demanding campaign, with five games in 10 days for the eventual finalists, all played in unforgiving tropical sun and humidity.