VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis spends part of his days at his desk working and concelebrates Mass daily in his private ...

He was killed during World War II after his aircraft crashed into the water off Papua New Guinea. At the time, searchers could not find the plane's wreckage or any survivors. On March 11 ...

Elisabetta Povoledo/The New York Times Millions around the world have been offering prayers ... a remote outpost of Papua New Guinea, to spend an afternoon with a group of missionaries from ...

commander 126th Infantry Regiment in New Guinea, World War II; postwar service in the Pacific and at Fort Benning, Ga.; went to Korea as assistant commander of 25th Division. Nearly all of the old ...

The setting of Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped the first nuclear bomb in 1945 during World War II, carries newfound ... He will skip Papua New Guinea and Australia in order to return to ...

A forgotten struggle When the Dutch relinquished control of West Papua ... during World War II, necessitate a thoughtful and proactive approach. Australia must consider forming new alliances ...

The deadline to express interest in the project, which will be built in three phases on Buka Island in Papua New Guinea, is March 24 ... dormant and active volcanoes and for its numerous World War II ...

He objected to any implication that celebrating heroes who helped to win World War II equates with “diversity ... CORRECTION:The caption on the photo of Code Talkers in Papua New Guinea has been ...

He graduated from the Staff College at Quetta in India in 1913, was in England when the First World War began ... in Papua under pressure from MacArthur remains controversial. Blamey conducted a ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the scars remain, allowing visitors to get up close and touch history.

Papua New Guinea has underlined its close defence relationship with Australia by sending a single NZAero 750XL to the Avalon ...