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 ...

Deep in the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea mysterious beliefs in sorcery ... The majority of the Korowai tribe members live in treehouses in their isolated forest territory, but some have ...

Writer Will Millard visits the treehouse-dwelling Korowai tribe in Papua, Indonesia, to try and understand the pressures they face as they move into the modern world.

At least 26 people have been killed in a massacre in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, local officials have confirmed. The men were shot dead in an ambush in the Enga Province in the remote ...

Papua New Guinea has given police permission to use “lethal force” to restore order as shootouts between rival tribes have ...