West Indies and New Zealand are the top-ranked teams in Group C, but will face strong resistance from Afghanistan, Uganda and Papua New Guinea as they aim to make it through to the second round.

The landslide caused "major destruction to buildings, food gardens and caused major impact on the economic lifeline of the country", the disaster office said.

Papua New Guinea have become the latest team to qualify for the 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, set to be held in the West Indies and the USA.

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If you are travelling to Papua New Guinea, you don't need to pack a phrasebook, you need to bring an entire library. With 841 living tongues and a colourful creole lingua franca, this Pacific nation is the undisputed world champion of linguistic diversity.

Papua New Guinea says it is mulling a temporary shutdown of Facebook to uncover false accounts and block fake news in the Pacific nation, which hosts a major global summit later this year.

Papua New Guinea's electoral commissioner has defended his decision to seek a court order stopping a blogger from calling him "tomato".

Police in Papua New Guinea open fire on students protesting against Prime Minister Peter O'Neill.

Three men who had been missing for three days are rescued from a deserted Pacific island after a US Navy plane spotted the word "help" spelled out in palm leaves on the beach, officials say.

Bangladeshi Tigresses slammed the women side of Papua New Guinea with a 41-run victory in the ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier at Bangkok in Thailand.

A rocket mission to put a new spacecraft in orbit for London-based Inmarsat is declared a success.

Indonesian search and rescue teams head to a remote part of the western Papua region where a plane is believed to have crashed.