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Fresh vibe (+recipe)
A Bali restaurant run by a Kiwi is drawing global attention. By Kerri Jackson.
Thailand: A fish with Facebook friends
Kate Roff submerges off the coast of Thailand to meet a local celebrity.
Mirko Bagaric: Suicide mission exposes human rights nonsense
Workers at the damaged nuclear plant in Japan are doing whatever is necessary to save the greater population.
Catastrophe in Japan means construction boom
Japan's magnitude-9 quake and tsunami damaged about 1500 roads, 48 bridges and 15 railways.
Ooh for umami (+recipes)
Add a fifth taste to sweet, sour, salty and bitter and you're in for a sensory treat.
NZ to give $1m to Red Cross in Japan
Cabinet agreed today to give $1m to support the Red Cross effort in Japan, Prime Minister John Key announced this afternoon, and also confirmed four NZers were still in Libya.
Japan disaster: Plant workers 'resigned to death'
Workers at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said they were "resigned to death" when the 9-magnitude quake struck on March 11.
<i>Peter Bromhead</i>: Nuclear reactions
My anti-nuclear friends are having a field day debunking my myopic view that a modest nuclear power plant would sensibly take care of New Zealand's energy needs for the next 100 years.
Japan: Woman, 80, boy rescued after nine days
An 80-year-old woman and a 16-year-old boy have been rescued from a badly damaged house in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, nine days after the magnitude 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami ravaged the area, the Japan Times reports.
NZ team returning from Japan
New Zealand's Urban Search and Rescue team is returning from earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan tomorrow. Teams from several other countries, have also completed their rescue missions.
Holi Festival - India
Images from the Holi Festival of colour, during which Hindu devotees light bonfires, dance, and throw coloured powder and water at each other.
A lonely drive north along the highway to desolation
Weekend Herald reporter Michael Dickison grew up in Japan and speaks the language fluently. After last week's earthquake he returned and filed this account of his odyssey through the ravaged countryside of his other homeland...
Anxious NZ parents waiting to make contact with son
The family of a Kiwi believed to be staying at an evacuation centre in Japan are still desperately waiting for details.
Get out of Tokyo, Kiwis told
MFAT has upgraded its advice to New Zealand citizens in quake-devastated Japan, warning Kiwis to leave Tokyo and northern Honshu.
Four more quake victims named
Police have tonight released the names of three women and a man, four more victims of last month's deadly Christchurch earthquake.
Nathan Astle: Murali game plan is key
If the Black Caps can set up a solid game plan against Muttiah Muralitharan tonight then they'll go a long way to beating Sri Lanka.
Father 'sick' until hearing son safe
The father of the last New Zealander who was missing in Japan until yesterday thought the chances of son Peter Setter being alive were "tipping in the wrong direction", until the wonderful news of his survival, in one of Japan's worst hit