The Papua New Guinea tribe developed strong genetic resistance after a major epidemic of the CJD-like disease, kuru, spread mostly by cannibalism. Current Edition Topics ...

Venture deep into the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea and discover the Crocodile Tribe—a community renowned for its fierce traditions and haunting history. Once associated with cannibal practices, ...

Mundiya Kepanga was born in the forests of Papua New Guinea and has become an internationally recognized campaigner for his country's primary forests. The nation's government has also realized just ...

Daniel Pinto, a 27-year-old traveller from Lambeth, south London, has become the first tourist to visit several indigenous ...

Shells were legal currency in Papua New Guinea until 1933 ... after a clan from Asaro village suffered defeat from an enemy tribe wanting to steal their pigs. The surviving warriors fled into ...

The leader of the Huli tribe in the forests of Papua New Guinea is delighted that the government wants to make the country a global role model for sustainable forest management. Mundiya Kepanga's ...

She has lived in Papua New Guinea for more than two decades and has ... British author Edward Marriott describes in his 1996 book, The Lost Tribe, how he was blamed when a woman and four children ...

Physical similarities with indigenous tribes in Southern India and Australian ... links to the neighbouring peoples in modern Papua New Guinea, Micronesia and parts of Oceania.

Pope Francis has approved his canonisation, together with that of Archbishop Ignatius Maloyan, killed in the Armenian genocide. A lay catechist, To Rot was killed in 1945 for defending marriage agains ...