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Liam Newman, 25, died in a skydiving event in Queensland. Photo: Supplied / iFLY / Facebook A New Zealand sky diver has died in Australia after taking part in a sky diving event in Western Queensland. Australian media are reporting 25-year-old Liam Newman died after he over corrected his landing and hit the ground at speed. His workplace iFly Brisbane Indoor Skydiving took to social media confirming his death. The post said he was a much loved staff member of their team and their thoughts were with his family at this difficult time. Tributes have been pouring in on social media remembering Newman. Emergency crews were called to a rural area at Tarawera near Goondiwindi about 8am on Tuesday, the ABC has reported. The Australian Parachute Federation (APF), which is investigating the death...

File photo. A gas rig off Taranaki. Photo: Supplied Spending hundreds of millions on building an liquefied natural gas import terminal will not reduce New Zealand's emissions compared with burning coal, says an energy expert. Falling production from offshore gas fields, along with low hydro lake levels, have been blamed for burning more coal at the Huntly power station and increasing New Zealand's emissions. But Sustainable Energy Professor Ralph Sims of Massey University says by the time gas is extracted, cooled, stored and shipped in the form of liquefied natural gas (LNG), any climate benefits over burning coal will disappear. The government on Monday announced steps to address an energy crisis which has seen gas and electricity prices spike for many large commercial users and some c...

The British-flagged Bayesian capsized and sunk on 19 August killing seven people. Photo: VesselFinder Italian prosecutors are investigating two more crew members from British tech tycoon Mike Lynch's yacht, along with its captain, in connection with the vessel's sinking over a week ago, a judicial source said. Being investigated does not imply guilt and does not mean formal charges will follow. Lynch and six other people were killed when the British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre-long yacht, capsized and went down on 19 August within minutes of being hit by a pre-dawn storm while anchored off northern Sicily. On Monday, the boat's 51-year-old captain James Cutfield, a New Zealander, was put under investigation for manslaughter and shipwreck. Cutfield declined to respond to prosecutors dur...

By Ali Sawafta A Palestinian woman in a damaged street at the Nur Shams camp near the city of Tulkarem after an Israeli army raid on 28 August 2024. Photo: AFP Hundreds of Israeli troops backed by helicopters, drones and armoured personnel carriers raided the flashpoint cities of Jenin and Tulkarm and other areas in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, killing at least 10 Palestinians. The assault, one of the largest seen in the West Bank for months, followed a series of smaller raids in the area over recent weeks as Israeli forces sought to crush groups of fighters from Palestinian militant groups. With Israeli forces battling Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and facing a serious escalation of tensions with Iranian-backed Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Wednesday's operation unders...

By Isabelle Yr Carlsson and Tom Little for Reuters A photo taken during the night from August 22 to 23, 2024 shows lava and smoke erupting from a volcano near Grindavik on the Icelandic peninsula of Reykjanes. Photo: AFP / Public Defence Department of the State Police in Iceland A volcano spewed lava and smoke over southwestern Iceland for a second day last Friday raising fears of spreading pollution hours after its eruption forced the evacuation of a spa resort. Fountains of glowing molten rock shot into the night sky when the volcano first erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula on Thursday. The flow from the volcano has since slowed, Rikke Pedersen, head of the Nordic Volcanological Centre, said. "We have a quite intense fountaining and high output in the beginning and it rapidly decli...