Papua New Guinea
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Irish teenagers taller and heavier than 35 years ago, study finds
- Health
- November 6, 2020, 15:34
Irish teenagers have become taller and heavier in the last 35 years, according to a global study published in The Lancet. The study of child and ado(...)

Digicel debt restructuring amounts to default, says Moody’s
- Technology
- May 6, 2020, 15:16
Moody’s, one of the world’s leading credit ratings agencies, has said that Digicel’s plans to wipe away as much as one-quarter of its $7 billion (€6.5(...)

Volcano watch aims to improve eruption forecasting in order to save lives
- Science
- April 21, 2020, 13:03
Volcanoes have erupted without warning and killed people living on, or near them, since the dawn of human history. The Vesuvius eruption of AD 79 kill(...)

COP25 climate talks end with a compromise and key decisions postponed
- World
- December 15, 2019, 08:40
A handful of big, carbon-emitting states resisted pressure to ramp up ambitions to combat global warming and reform carbon trading to the very end as (...)

Bertie Ahern announces referendum result in Papua New Guinea
- Politics
- December 11, 2019
The South Pacific region of Bougainville has voted in a referendum in favour of gaining independence from Papua New Guinea. The result was announced b(...)

The ‘quacking ducks’ Denis O’Brien stuffed with Digicel debt wait in the reeds
- Technology
- November 29, 2019, 05:10
Nicole Laframboise, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) economist, didn’t mince her words on Monday when she wrapped up the fund’s latest review of t(...)

Climate disruption is helping drive rise in global hunger, report says
- World
- October 15, 2019, 00:00
Decades of progress in addressing world hunger is being undermined by worsening hunger levels in some countries, due to accelerating climate disruptio(...)

World’s most liveable cities for 2019 revealed
- Abroad
- September 4, 2019, 16:20
Vienna has held off Melbourne to retain the top spot on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index for 2019, further strengthening its(...)

Hopes of easing in US-China trade war push global stocks higher
- Markets
- August 30, 2019, 18:38
A gauge of global stocks edged higher on Friday, pushed by hopes of easing trade tensions between China and the United States. But there was still we(...)

More than 20 reportedly killed in Papua New Guinea violence
- Asia-Pacific
- July 10, 2019, 07:28
More than 20 people including pregnant women and children have been killed in recent tribal violence in Papua New Guinea, according to media reports. (...)