The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) must address its essential geopolitical situation, as Papua New Guinea (PNG) is continuing its efforts to become a full member of the organisation.

Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sang would feature on Australian music charts 1,800 years later. But one Australian academic's obsession with ...

At just 17 years old, Papua New Guinean basketball player Lynette Tongia produced a stand out performance at the 2025 Melanesian Cup in Honiara earlier this year and earned selection in the All-Stars ...

‘Hymns that are liked by the people are a good choice, but it’s also important that they convey the Catholic faith,’ said Archbishop Shawn McKnight. Scene from the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress ...

“Amazing Grace” as it appears in Ginny Hawker’s family heirloom songbook, Lloyd’s Primitive Baptist Hymns. You can see stains in the margins, left by the tobacco-covered hands of her aunt Annie Maud ...

You don’t have to travel to the West to find blonde-haired, blue-eyed people; one African tribe has had them for centuries. Africans are one of the most genetically diverse groups of people in the ...

A Babylonian hymn lost for over a thousand years was rediscovered. Experts pieced together the hymn using an AI model to decipher hundreds of cuneiform tablets in a Baghdad library. The library’s ...

For at least 500 years, Babylonian children were tasked with memorizing a hymn that celebrated the city of Babylon, its citizenry, and chief deity Marduk. There was much to praise: the city was ...

In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been lost for a thousand years. A paper on this discovery is published in the ...

SYDNEY, June 26 (Reuters) - Leaders of the four biggest Pacific Islands nations have delayed adopting a joint security strategy that could provide an opening for Beijing, against a backdrop of ...

Gospel music and faith have long been a part of Black culture in the U.S. From hymns that would be sung on slavery fields to anthems of the civil rights movement, gospel has been there. Adeerya ...

The Denisovans, a mysterious group of ancient humans originally identified purely from DNA, finally have a face. Using molecular evidence, Qiaomei Fu at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...