Water survival skills down as school pools close

Wellington, March 7 (IANS) A seven-year-old girl, who was critically injured after being bitten over 100 times by four dogs in a horrific attack that has shaken New Zealand, is faced with an uncertain future. Sakuraku Uehar from Japan was Monday ...

Wellington, March 7 (ANI): Florida's Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge recently posted a series of pictures showing a giant otter devouring an alligator on their Facebook page. The photos, which were taken in 2011, showed the hapless Florida ...

Wellington, Mar 7 - New Zealand batsman Ross Taylor has reportedly been named the country's Player of the Year twice at the annual New Zealand Cricket Awards in Auckland for the 2013-14 season, topping in every category he was nominated in. The ...

WELLINGTON, March 7 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand's wholesale trade sales were up by 2.7 percent to 21.6 billion NZ dollars (18.32 billion U.S. dollars) over the quarter to the end of December last year, the government statistics agency announced Friday. ...

The kiwi rose to 84.76 US cents at 5pm in Wellington from 83.89 cents at the close of trading in New York last week. It traded at 84.84 cents at 8am, up from 84.22 cents yesterday. The New Zealand dollar is heading for a 1 percent weekly gain amid ...

Thursday, 06 March 2014 11:30 Posted by Imaduddin SYDNEY/WELLINGTON: The Australian dollar leapt half a cent on Thursday after upbeat retail sales and trade data supported a steady interest rate outlook. The Aussie jumped to ...

Police say there is still a risk of fire or explosion at a P lab, which was found in an upmarket Wellington apartment complex this morning. Police and the Fire Service arrived at the Chews Lane Apartments, between Willis and Victoria streets in ...

WELLINGTON, March 6 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand's expanding fishing activities were again under fire Thursday with falling numbers reported in yet another of the country's endangered marine mammals. The government announced it would develop a threat ...

Prime Minister John Key makes a derp-face with students from Victoria University in Wellington yesterday. First there was planking, then Gangnam Style , now ... derp-face. Prime Minister John Key's latest attempt to win the youth vote included ...