A DISTRAUGHT husband told how he had to abandon a bid to rescue his teenage son to save his wife from drowning in a murky river.

A crop-duster pilot who crashed into trees and died was distracted by texting and making calls on his mobile phone.

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.

Greenpeace said fishermen fired potatoes at the group’s activists today when they used inflatable boats to disrupt a trawling ship near New Zealand in a protest timed to coincide with UN talks on managing the world’s oceans.