Anyone who damages Antarctica’s pristine environment must now pay to clean it up under a new pact, a senior New Zealand official said today.

New Zealand today denounced Zimbabwe’s latest general election as neither free nor fair as the African country counted votes from the poll held yesterday.

HEADS bowed and weeping, survivors and families of last year’s bomb attacks on Indonesia’s Bali island paid tribute to the 202 people killed, as fresh warnings were issued that Muslim radicals could strike again.

At least 15 villages have been washed into the ocean on one of two Pacific islands devastated by a massive cyclone, an anthropologist said today.

New Zealand has called for Zimbabwe to be suspended from the Commonwealth for its increasingly dictatorial and abusive regime.

New Zealand today approved stiff new regulations to ban funding and recruiting for terror groups, in a move to meet United Nations anti-terrorism controls.

New Zealand will send its elite SAS troops to help the US fight against terrorism if necessary.

World governments responded nervously to President George W Bush’s decision to build a shield against ballistic missile attack, dubbed Son of Star Wars, with some saying they feared the plan could jeopardise global security.

New Zealand will lodge formal protests with Britain, Japan and France over a shipment of nuclear fuel.