Quick thinking, rapid deployment, and long days are what Territorial Force soldiers can expect this week in Waiouru as they undertake their annual week of intensive field training.

Statement to Parliament

Hon. John Key

Prime Minister

9 February 2010

Presented to the House of Representatives in accordance with Standing Order 345

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The Government starts 2010 with a very full programme of reform in front of it.

Wellington, Feb 5 NZPA - The bodies of two members of a New Zealand woman's family killed in the massive Haiti earthquake last month have been returned to New Zealand.

Wellington, Feb 5 NZPA - The bodies of two members of a New Zealand woman's family killed in the massive Haiti earthquake last month have been returned to New Zealand.

Beijing, China

Hamburg 1.2.2010. The IMF Managing Director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has taken up a suggestion by the World Future Council (WFC) on how to finance climate security and climate justice in developing countries.

World leaders are set to fail their first test on climate change since Copenhagen and put the world on track for almost four degrees of warming, said Oxfam International today, ahead of the January 31 deadline for countries to submit emission reduction targets under the Copenhagen Accord.

New Zealand's world famous parrot - Sirocco the kākāpō - has been officially recognized as a conservation ambassador by the Prime Minister John Key.

Maori Affairs Minister Dr Pita Sharples has welcomed the release of two papers on Treaty of Waitangi relationships and human rights and the Treaty.

As many as 25 Auckland bands and musicians are donating their talents to a musical event that's raising funds for UNICEF's emergency relief effort in Haiti.