Topic: Papua New Guinea
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Parental leave global comparison: US still among least generousParental leave policies that guarantee new moms leave with income are available in 169 countries – the US is not among them, showed a study by Harvard and McGill Universities.
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Progress Watch
Gender pay gap is eroding, especially among younger women, US data showWomen are slowly making inroads in the gender pay gap. Recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data for full-time workers show women earn 82 percent as much as men, up from 64 percent in 1980.
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Global first: Brit visits all 201 states without flying
Graham Hughes says Iraq and Afghanistan were easy. Islands like Nauru were the real challenges.
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3 lawyers test human rights cases from abroad in Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will hear a case Monday which could determine whether cases involving foreign governments committing atrocities in their own countries should be heard in the US court system.
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7.6 earthquake: Tsunami alert for Philippines, Indonesia only
A 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the Philippines Friday destroying roads and bridges. A tsunami alert for Asia and Hawaii has been scaled back to just the Philippines and Indonesia.
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Philippines 7.9 quake triggers tsunami alerts across Asia
A tsunami alert was in effect for the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Japan, Guam, the Northern Marianas and Papua New Guinea, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
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Did researchers spot Amelia Earhart's plane? (+video)
Researchers on an expedition to the South Pacific to discover the fate of Amelia Earhart and her navigator say they have spotted a field of manmade debris in an underwater video taken in waters off the Republic of Kiribati.
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Australia plans to deport asylum seekers to Pacific islands
Australia's government announced a plan to deter refugee boats from reaching its shores as it hopes to reopen refugee detention centers in the Pacific islands nations of Nauru and Papua New Guinea. 964 asylum seekers had died since 2001 while making the dangerous sea journey to Australia.
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Mongolia strikes it rich, but at what cost?Vast mineral deposits are bringing wealth to this country of 3 million. Now Mongolia is in a race to stem the threat of corruption.
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Will researchers solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance? (+video)
A team of researchers hopes to locate Amelia Earhart's plane off the coast of an island called Nikumaroro. Promising pieces of 1930's clothing and cosmetic products have been found there before.
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Change Agent
Turning to old crop varieties for tough timesA new project led by Bioversity International reconnects farmers with older crop varieties developed over millennia – but never bred by scientists – that may help them adapt to changing climate conditions.
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Papa New Guinea's parliament under blockade by police
The police are saying they will not allow parliament to sit until the next elections.
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Bumblebee gecko species a 'striking surprise,' say scientists
Bumblebee gecko: A new species of gecko, dubbed the 'bumblebee gecko,' after its yellow and black markings, has been discovered in Papua New Guinea.
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'Titanic' director James Cameron dives to Earth's deepest spot
Cameron is using a submarine to descend nearly seven miles to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific. The pressure below is the equivalent of three SUVs sitting on your toe.
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James Cameron makes final preparations for historic deep-sea dive
Weather permitting Saturday, explorer and filmmaker James Cameron could take his Deepsea Challenger to the bottom of the world, a place of perpetual cold, darkness, and abiding mystery.
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The new clue that could solve the Amelia Earhart mystery (+video)
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has joined scientists and aviation archaeologists in unveiling a renewed search for the wreckage of the plane flown by Amelia Earhart as she attempted to circle the globe in 1937.
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James Cameron to go into the deep for film and science
This month, filmmaker James Cameron plans to lead the second trip to the deepest place on Earth. He aims to collect samples for science, as well as video footage.
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Filmmaker James Cameron to plunge to deepest spot in ocean
James Cameron plans to visit the Challenger Deep, which at seven miles below the ocean's surface is the deepest place on Earth, aboard a state-of-the-art diving craft.
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John Glenn's first spaceflight was fraught with risks and unknowns
Before Glenn completed three laps of Earth on Feb. 20, 1962, no American had spent more than 15 minutes in space.
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World's tiniest chameleon: How did it get so small?
Scientists recently discovered four new species of chameleons in Madagascar. One of them – Brookesia micra – is the smallest chameleon in the world. This species may have evolved through a phenomenon known as island dwarfism.
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Hawk-eyed scientists spot world's smallest chameleon
A chameleon that could rest on the head of a match has been discovered by scientists on a island off Madagascar. The scientists also announced the discovery of three more species of tiny chameleons.
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Newly discovered frog is smallest known vertebrate
The tropical forest of Papua New Guinea is home to the smallest animal with a backbone, a frog dubbed Paedophryne amanuensis.
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Global News Blog
Local version of American Idol highlights growing rich-poor divide in Papua New GuineaThe glitz of PNG Idol is putting a spotlight on the growing rich-poor divide in the country, which has seen a resource boom.
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Penny-sized frogs are world's smallest
The frogs are so small they seem to have hit the lower limit of body size for frogs and toads, so it's unlikely that researchers will find anything much smaller.
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