2+ hour, 20+ min ago   (185+ words) It's been almost three weeks since a devastating flash flood ripped through villages on the Nepal-Tibet border. Approximately 1,300 people are known to have died in the disaster, with thousands more still feeling the affects. Veteran-led group Taskforce Kiwi has sent…...

8+ hour, 23+ min ago   (250+ words) Local petrol prices are continuing to climb as the Iran-US war drags on and Houthi rebels threaten oil trade via the Red Sea. According to local fuel monitoring site Gaspy, the average price of 91 unleaded has jumped 15 cents a litre…...

6+ hour, 47+ min ago   (845+ words) The Vanuatu ferry disaster has exposed a critical gap in how weather warnings are turned into action across the Pacific, according to the country's top meteorologist. MV Matui, Vanuatu's inter-island ferry sank in rough seas off the coast of Vanuatu…...

12+ hour, 12+ min ago   (1409+ words) Analysis - The latest warnings about AI seem intended to boggle minds and shock everyone into action. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, a leader in the AI race, on Saturday (local time) called for a conscious slowdown in AI development in an…...

11+ hour, 6+ min ago   (1065+ words) Analysis - Over the weekend the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, published an essay with the headline We Must Pace the Frontier. He said he was worried that within a year a swarm of AI agents could be capable of taking…...

12+ hour, 1+ min ago   (316+ words) Two years after going agonisingly close in Taupō, Hayden Wilde has powered to the Ironman 70.3 world crown in France. The New Zealand multi-distance great was run down late at the same event two years ago in Taupō, but in Nice…...

12+ hour, 35+ min ago   (586+ words) Rescuers in Indonesia said at least six people were killed and 129 others were missing after a ferry capsized in rough seas on Sunday, with one survivor recounting scenes of panic as passengers scrambled for life jackets. The Virgo Transport 8 - which…...

12+ hour, 17+ min ago   (354+ words) Turkish authorities have detained at least 47 people following a series of raids on the offices of LGBTQ+ associations in a probe into prostitution and obscenity, prosecutors said. The crackdown is part of a campaign that the government says is aimed…...

12+ hour, 51+ min ago   (737+ words) An Australian pilot who helped locate survivors after a ferry disaster in Vanuatu says "it is a miracle anyone survived". After the ferry MV Matui sank in rough seas on Friday morning, more than 30 people remain missing. The ferry departed…...

13+ hour, 26+ min ago   (173+ words) A leopard seal which hundreds of spectators visited has died, A Hutt City Councillor says. The female leopard seal was spotted two weeks ago lounging on Petone Beach, with some concerns members of the public were harassing the animal. Councillor…...