THREE teenagers missing in the South Pacific for 50 days — who were already eulogised in a memorial service — have been found alive by a New Zealand fishing boat.

Around 30 workers were unaccounted for after an explosion ripped through a coal mine in New Zealand today, police and media reports said.

The skipper of a Sea Shepherd protest boat damaged in a collision with a Japanese whaling ship said today that the head of the conservation group ordered him to let the vessel sink because it would help win public support.

POLICE issued a murder and kidnapping warrant yesterday for the father of a three-year-old girl abandoned in Australia after her mother’s body was found stuffed in the boot of a car in New Zealand.

Survivors picked through ruined stores today in a desperate search for drinking water and food in a Solomon Islands town devastated by a tsunami, as an international relief effort made tentative first steps.