In Waitangi Park, Wellington,New Zealand,21-year-old Patrick Cooper was swinging on a swing set. At 1:30 pm on Friday, Cooper got onto the swing while balancing on a pillow on the seat. Forty-eight hours later, he got off, for the final time. It was 1:30 p.m. on Sunday.
On Friday night, an unusual crash occurred in Dunedin,New Zealand.A 29 Year-old man had changed all four of his car’s tires earlier in the day. He then requested his coworker, a 16-year-old without a license, to drive him to the dairy.
Two stores denied booze to a Newzelander who had brain damage from a vehicle accident because they believed he was intoxicated.
Vanuatu on Wednesday took stock of damage from a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake that killed at least 14 people and collapsed buildings in the capital, as the first trickle of international assistance began arriving in the disaster-prone Pacific nation.
Indonesian human rights groups have called for an independent investigation into the death of a New Zealand helicopter pilot in a remote part of Papua province earlier this week.66.
Exercises are conducted in the South China Sea by China, Russia, the US, and the Philippines.Taiwan says it will commit to bolstering own defenses. Thailand authorities investigate hotel poisoning deaths. Rare whale washes ashore in New Zealand.
Scores of people are feared dead after a landslide struck a remote highlands province in the Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea on Friday
Lamb flaps – cut from the chest and up to 90% fat – and sheep tongue and neck chops, barbecued and sold at markets and roadside stalls, are affordable for Papua New Guineans and make a tasty meal for the average family
The kidnapping of a New Zealand pilot in Indonesia’s volatile Papua region is the latest in a series of attention-grabbing attacks by 24-year-old Egianus Kogoya and his faction of Papuan independence fighters.
Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s Papua said Tuesday that a foreign pilot taken hostage last week was alive and well, as they released undated photographs and videos they said showed the New Zealand citizen, amid a group of apparent insurgents, in what appeared to be a forested area.