Australian Associated Press
A search in waters off the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu is continuing for more than 30 people who are missing after a passenger ferry sank.
Papua New Guinea's autonomous region of Bougainville has moved a step closer to possible independence as the Pacific nation's parliament prepared to consider the results of a non-binding r...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 has jolted Papua New Guinea's north coast. The quake struck at 8.59pm AEST, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences reported.
Former world heavyweight champion Joseph Parker has argued to British anti-doping authorities that his nutritionist's cocaine use caused a positive drug test after his bout with Fabio Wardley last Oct...
Tarona Taafaki has put Tuvalu on the sporting map by winning the tiny South Pacific nation's first-ever medal at the Commonwealth Games. And the beauty of it all is the 20-year-old southpaw, who compe...
US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau has met with Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale to discuss deepening ties and signed a letter of intent to return the Peace Corps to the...
Indonesia's military has recovered the body of a US pilot who was shot dead by rebels in the restive eastern region of Papua after a separatist group said the attack was a "message" to the...
New Caledonia has begun long-delayed provincial elections, with polling stations in the French-ruled Pacific islands under heavy security.