Expand Lockboxes are being fitted to the cars to make police-issue semi-automatic rifles and pistols more accessible to response staff. Photo / file All frontline police response cars will have special lockable containers fitted and more than half will carry firearms at all times by July next year. The timeline was confirmed in this month’s [...]

Expand Students helping to clean up Rydall Street in the Christchurch suburb of Hoon Hay after the first quake. Photo / Mark Mitchell A Christmas visit to volunteers helping quake-stricken Christchurch suburbs may see new Minister of Civil Defence, Napier MP Chris Tremain, link government and the Student Volunteer Army. Mr Tremain, who took up [...]

Expand The holiday road toll has ended at 18. Photo / Mark Mitchell The official holiday driving period has finished this morning, with 18 people dying on New Zealand’s roads. The period ran from 4pm December 23 to 6am this morning. During the same period last year 12 people were killed, while in 2009/10 13 [...]

Expand Salvors pictured standing on fallen shipping containers onboard the MV Rena. Photo / Alan Gibson Stricken ship Rena may have split into two pieces after getting pounded by 5m swells this weekend. The list and the heading of the aft section had changed overnight, which meant it had “possibly” split in two, a Maritime [...]

Expand Around 100-150 police officers around the country will trial the new technology. Photo / File As well as Tasers, Glocks and rifles, frontline police will be armed with smartphones, laptops and iPad-like tablets this year in an effort to increase numbers on the streets. The “mobility of technology” trial starting this month will see [...]

Expand Be considerate when you use your mobile phone in public. Photo / Getty Images With a population density of 5937 people a square kilometre and an average commute time of about an hour, in Tokyo the niggles of public life matter. Which might be why talking on mobile phones on the city’s train system [...]

Expand New Zealand passports are highly sought after. Photo / NZ Herald Police are investigating nearly 50 false New Zealand passports, discovered during checks being done before a new online passport renewal system is introduced this year. New Zealand passports are highly sought after by local and international criminal networks, and the 47 false documents [...]

Expand Jessy will be a playful, affectionate addition to the right family but will need to be in a cat-free home. Photo / Natalie Slade Jessy will be a playful, affectionate addition to the right family but will need to be in a cat-free home. Eleven-month-old Jessy may be classed as an adult dog but [...]

Foto:LaPresse Duro attacco al blogger e giornalista de L’Espresso Alessandro Gilioli. A parlarne Lettera Viola, il magazine del popolo viola. Autore dell’attacco il rifondatore del Movimento Sociale Italiano (Msi) Gaetano Saya. Al centro della vicenda la partecipazione dell’esponente dei Responsabili Domenico Scilipoti al convegno del nuovo Msi che si è svolto ieri a Genova. Tutto [...]

Foto:listaouting.wordpress.com Sono stati pubblicati i primi dieci nomi dei politici gay, ma omofobi. E’ così partito il primo outing di massa ‘contro l’ipocrisia’, iniziativa di cui è promotore Aurelio Mancuso, presidente di ‘Equality Italia’ (leggi la notizia). Sul sito che ospita la lista il gruppo di attivisti anonimi ha pubblicato i nomi di dieci politici [...]