http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ Latest World headlines from nzherald.co.nz en-nz Copyright 2010 APN HOLDINGS NZ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:00:01 +1200 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss APN RSS Generator webnews@nzherald.co.nz webmaster@nzherald.co.nz http://www.nzherald.co.nz/images/nz_little_logo.gif http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/headlines.cfm?c_id=2 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670873&ref=rss CANBERRA - Australia will remain in political limbo until next week with the trio of independents who will decide the next government still undecided about which party to support.Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie has thrown... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:30:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670876&ref=rss WASHINGTON - In a promising sign, Israeli and Palestinian leaders pledged to keep meeting at regular intervals, aiming to nail down a framework for overcoming deep disputes and achieving lasting peace within a year.As their facilitator-in-chief,... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:00:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670864&ref=rss TANAH KARO, Indonesia - An Indonesian volcano sent a new, powerful burst of hot ash and debris two miles (thousands of meters) into the air early Friday, sending villagers fleeing back to emergency shelters.The tremor could be... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:34:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670778&ref=rss Another oil rig exploded and caught fire off the Louisiana coast this morning.But no, it's not another Deepwater Horizon -scale disaster.The explosion has spread a kilometre-long oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico west of the... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:00:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670835&ref=rss A shark attack in a remote area of the Solomon Islands has left an Australian man with severe cuts to his face and neck.The 34-year-old, unofficially named by media as Sydneysider Benjamin D'Emden, was attacked yesterday while... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:15:41 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670821&ref=rss SYDNEY - The discovery of human bones, especially a skull, in the forest where serial killer Ivan Milat did his gruesome work is sure to revive fascination in the grisly "backpacker murders".One of Milat's seven victims was decapitated,... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:00:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670788&ref=rss NAGS HEAD - Hurricane Earl steamed towards the United States eastern seaboard as communities from North Carolina to New England kept a close eye on the forecast, worried that even a slight shift in the storm's predicted offshore track... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:40:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670844&ref=rss Nasa is planning to send a mission to one of the most inhospitable places in the universe - the sun itself.The US space agency has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:00:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670862&ref=rss Trapped Chilean miner Yonni Barrios may survive his ordeal far beneath the ground, but surviving what's waiting for him on the surface could be a whole new matter.Barrios is going to have some explaining to do after his wife ran... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:40:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670831&ref=rss The Government will spend $3.5 million on improving tsunami preparedness and warning systems across the Pacific in a programme which Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully describes as a major upgrade.Mr McCully is in Samoa at... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:30:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670629&ref=rss A British paedophile confessed on his deathbed that he knew what happened to missing girl Madeleine McCann, according to a newspaper.Madeleine disappeared from a Portuguese resort in May 2007, days before her fourth birthday,... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:00:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670711&ref=rss More than 10,000 trucks, mainly carrying coal, are stuck in a 120km traffic jam in Inner Mongolia, in the latest dramatic snarl-up on China's roads. The jam started forming on Tuesday after traffic restrictions began being enforced... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:40:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670793&ref=rss LONDON - The British codebreaker found dead in the bath of his London flat last month had been padlocked inside a sports holdall, an inquest heard yesterday.Gareth Williams, 31, is thought to have been dead for more than a week... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:30:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670703&ref=rss Sarah Palin and the Tea Party have recorded another victory in the Republican primaries with their candidate in Alaska winning against the odds. Joe Miller, a little-known conservative lawyer backed by the former vice-presidential... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:40:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670701&ref=rss Philippine authorities sent the bodies of three of the victims in the Manila bus hijacking to the wrong families, Hong Kong said yesterday. The eight bodies were shipped back last Wednesday to Hong Kong, where relatives laid wreaths... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:10:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670768&ref=rss A director of a New Zealand firm allegedly linked to arms traffickers reappeared in court yesterday. Lu Zhang, 28, is accused of 75 offences of making false statements in company registration forms. She was charged after a... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:00:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670698&ref=rss United States officials launched a broad legal offensive against Pakistan's Taleban yesterday, placing the group on its international terrorism blacklist and charging its leader with planning last year's suicide bombing in Afghanistan... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:00:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670708&ref=rss The Amazon, the world's biggest river, is at its lowest level in more than 40 years near its source in northeastern Peru, causing havoc in a region where it is used as the only form of travel. Officials in Loreto province say... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:40:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670700&ref=rss Britain's Foreign Secretary, William Hague, admitted yesterday that he shared a hotel room with a male aide but insisted that he was not homosexual. In an extraordinary personal statement, Hague announced that his adviser Christopher... newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:40:00 +1200 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10670859&ref=rss This post originally appeared on Sciblogs.co.nz . So why has this monsoon season caused the worst flooding in Pakistan's history? The overall impression given by the media is that this year's fl newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:30:00 +1200