Navy Reservist Lieutenant Paul Eady recently returned to New Zealand after six months monitoring the military armistice in Korea with United Nations Command Military Armistice Commission (UNCMAC).

Khartoum/Geneva - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today facilitated the handover to government authorities of 35 members of the Sudanese army, who were released by the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) this week.

Fighting, mines and road blocks are preventing many people in the conflict-affected areas of Afghanistan from getting to hospital. The ICRC is reacting by training local surgeons in war surgery skills and giving basic first-aid training to people directly involved in the fighting.

After two years of planning, the St John International Youth Festival has finally arrived.

The first day of the Festival is tomorrow, Monday 25 January at Lincoln University, Canterbury.

Significant amounts of emergency aid have arrived in quake-struck Port-au-Prince. The challenge now is to get it to survivors as quickly as possible.

World Vision is increasingly concerned about vulnerable children as it begins it relief efforts in the devastated Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.

Auckland, Dec 30 NZPA - Controversy over a seaside stall on the country's most photographed beach continues to grow as the stall owner says tourists are happy he is there but locals want to send him packing.

This has been a big year for ACT. It began with our Confidence & Supply Agreement with National in place and, looking back, we've made a great start to our contribution to making New Zealand a more free and prosperous country.

St John and Marker have released a free iPhone application which could help you save a life. This CPR application is the first developed for the New Zealand environment.

34 new paid St John ambulance officers are joining the front line this month Another 51 new paid St John ambulance officers will start work between January and June 2010 The additional ambulance officers are part of a package of targeted government funding St John will still need to continue t