Papua New Guinea Boat Capsize

Four people survived a month adrift in the Pacific by eating coconuts and drinking rainwater in an ordeal that claimed the lives of eight of their companions, including a baby, reports said Wednesday.

After a boat capsized off Papua New Guinea, four men went missing, out of which the fourth man was reportedly rescued on an isolated beach after scrawling "help" in the sand. The search for the other passengers from Australia, Fiji and Papua New Guinea is still in process.

Rescuers plucked more than 230 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after a ferry sank Thursday with as many as 350 people on board, officials said. An airplane from Australia, three helicopters and eight ships scoured the area after the MV Rabaul Queen went down while traveling from Kimbe on the island of New Britain to the coa...

Four people survived a month adrift in the Pacific by eating coconuts and drinking rainwater in an ordeal that claimed the lives of eight of their companions, including a baby, reports said Wednesday.

After a boat capsized off Papua New Guinea, four men went missing, out of which the fourth man was reportedly rescued on an isolated beach after scrawling "help" in the sand. The search for the other passengers from Australia, Fiji and Papua New Guinea is still in process.

Rescuers plucked more than 230 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after a ferry sank Thursday with as many as 350 people on board, officials said. An airplane from Australia, three helicopters and eight ships scoured the area after the MV Rabaul Queen went down while traveling from Kimbe on the island of New Britain to the coa...