(UPI) One of four elderly men held as prisoners in a house one of the men described as a dungeon died six days after he was rescued, US police said. Police answering a 911 call […]
(UPI) The New Zealand military received the assistance of U.S. intelligence agencies to monitor a journalist’s telephone calls, a report revealed. The Sunday Star Times said the monitoring of journalist Jon Stephenson came in the […]
(UPI) Major explosions at a US propane plant caused multiple deaths and injuries and forced residents more than a mile away to evacuate, officials said. At least 15 people were unaccounted for following the series […]
(UPI) A passenger bus collided with cars on a viaduct in Italy Sunday and plunged nearly 100 feet into a ravine, killing at least 36 people, authorities said. Agenzia Giornalistica Italia reported the crash occurred […]
(UPI) Pope Francis jetted back to the Vatican Sunday night, hours after leading an estimated 3 million faithful in a mass held on a Rio de Janeiro beach. The pontiff’s plane lifted off about 7:30 […]
Lives still hang in the balance as rescuers desperately try to pull people from the wreckage of a train after it derailed outside the northern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela, killing at least 77 […]
By Henry Chu Los Angeles Times He’s the boy without a name but with a gilded destiny. The one baby to rule them all – at least the people of Britain – was born to […]
(UPI) Chinese rescuers looked for survivors this week in northwest Gansu province where an earthquake killed at least 89 people and injured nearly 700 more. The massive rescue and relief work with the military assisting […]
A building contractor has warned the Government to move immediately to inspect buildings on a secret list of risky structures in Wellington, compiled after the Christchurch quakes. The contractor, who worked as a junior on […]
Another severe earthquake has shaken the country, this time at magnitude 6.5. The quake hit at 5.09pm and centered 20km east of seddon, at a depth of 17km. It follows a 5.8 quake that shook […]
A woman has pleaded guilty to sex charges after having a baby with a 13-year-old boy. Cecelia Rona Hale, 32, appeared in Manukau District Court today and confessed to two charges of sexual connection with […]
Two earthquakes have rattled Central New Zealand today. The first, magnitude 5.7, struck at 9.06am 30km east of Seddon. It was 16km deep. GNS classified it as severe, and it was felt as far away […]
By John Macdonald Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully Wednesday expressed “deep disappointment” over the failure to secure an international marine reserve in the Ross sea, but vowed to keep pushing the case. Talks on proposals […]
By John Macdonald The New Zealand government has bought the site of a building that collapsed, killing 115 people during the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake, it was revealed today. The purchase of the Canterbury Television […]
A “massive explosion” hit South Auckland on today, with firefighters now battling a blaze at a scrap metal factory. The fire service was alerted to the explosion just before 7pm. A fire service spokesman said […]
(UPI) A jury in Florida Saturday night found neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman not guilty in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin. The verdict came after the Seminole County jury of six women […]
(UPI) The recovery of five more bodies Saturday brought the death toll in the Lac-Megantic, Quebec, train disaster to 33 with 17 people still missing, police said. Investigators had identified nine of the 33, but […]
UPI National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden said he would ask Russia for temporary asylum Friday as a step in gaining asylum in Latin America. Snowden’s statement came as he met with human rights groups […]
UPI French authorities said a train derailment south of Paris has left at least eight people dead and trapped many others in overturned train cars. Broadcaster BFM-TV quoted police as saying at least eight people […]
Families of the 26 victims of the school shootings in Connecticut may receive $281,000 (USD) each under a proposal by a donations distribution committee. The proposal was presented Thursday at a public hearing, by the […]
UPI The death of a girl at San Francisco General Hospital Friday raised the death toll from the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 to three, authorities said. The girl, described only as a minor, […]
UPI Ireland’s Parliament has overwhelmingly passed amended legislation allowing abortion if the mother’s life is at risk. It passed Friday by a 127-31 vote. A provision to allow abortion if a pregnant woman is acutely […]
UPI Saudi Princess Meshael Alayban, who was arrested in California on human trafficking charges, was released on $5 million bail, court officials said. Alayban was arrested early Wednesday in her Irvine home for allegedly forcing […]
Shopping website Trade Me has today lifted a ban on sales of Ian Wishart’s critically-acclaimed book on the Kahui case, Breaking Silence. The ban was imposed in June 2011 at the height of the Facebook […]
(UPI) The head of the company whose runaway train exploded in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, said Wednesday firefighters may have contributed to the deadly accident. Edward Burkhardt — chairman of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway and […]
(UPI) Casey Anthony, the US woman acquitted of killing her daughter, has agreed to pay $25,000 (USD) in a dispute over rights to her life story, court papers show. The trustee in Anthony’s bankruptcy case […]
(UPI) U.S. surveillance leaker Edward Snowden a month ago predicted Washington would demonise him and charge him with espionage, a newly released interview indicated. Separately, Snowden was honoured by a group of former U.S. national […]
(UPI) The pilots of the jetliner that crashed in San Francisco came in too low, too slow, one expert said and another said they have a lot of explaining to do. Asiana Airlines Flight 214 […]
A man was shot dead by police this morning after a 350km high speed car chase from Opotiki to Auckland. Caleb Dean Henry, 20, was named today after a shootout with three teams of armed […]
(UPI) An Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul crashed and burned in San Francisco. At least two people died and one person was unaccounted for, officials said. An official said at a news conference that of […]
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