Nine people died after a light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company crashed on New Zealand’s South Island today.

A police union renewed its call for Taser stun guns today after Austriallian police officers shot dead a 15-year-old boy in a skate park who had threatened them with knives.

Two people were pulled to safety from the burning wreckage of a light aircraft that crash-landed on a main road and burst into flames in northern New Zealand today.