New Zealand police are helping to shape how law and order will be kept in East Timor in the future.

Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain.

A Sydney pilot and former Bachelor of the Year nominee has been hailed a hero after crashing his jet into the sea off Norfolk Island.

Treatable cataract blindness is the main cause of vision impairment in East Timor where around 10,000 are waiting for sight restoring surgery.

As anticipation about an impending invasion of icebergs builds, some lucky tourists have already witnessed them up close.

EU leaders have handed the European Union's top new jobs to two little-known compromise figures - Belgium's prime minister and the EU's trade commissioner - dashing hopes of those who wanted to raise the continent's global profile.

President Hamid Karzai faces a virulent Taliban insurgency and crippling corruption that has sown resentment among Afghans toward his administration.

The captain of the Princess Ashika says the Tongan ferry was never seaworthy and was in a terrible state, but he went out to sea anyway on August 5 - the day it filled with water and sank killing 74 people.

During East Timor's violent recent history nearly half of New Zealand’s defence force was engaged in peace-keeping duties there.

A surveillance camera in the US has captured a rare meteor explosion in the night sky.

A Bangladeshi toddler separated this week from her conjoined twin sister was talking and behaving normally after being woken Thursday from a medically induced coma, the head of the surgery team said.

A Romanian man has learnt the hard way that crime does not pay. He was trying to get through a small window when he became trapped.

From opposite ends of the globe, President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have firmly rejected criticism of the planned New York trial of the professed September 11 mastermind and predicted Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be exposed as a murderous coward, convicted and executed.

Warnings have been issued for Victoria as Australia again faces the threat of bushfires

New Zealand police will team up with Australian police next month, to try and fight binge drinking in both countries

The captain of the Princess Ashika is expected to give evidence at a Royal Commission of Inquiry today

Fifteen puppies were left to die in closed suitcases in a locked cupboard by Sussex dog breeder Amanda Cheadle.

A Russian energy official said the government was prepared to cut off natural gas deliveries to Ukraine should Kiev start "siphoning off" gas intended for European consumers from the transit pipelines.

Australian scientologists are promising to co-operate with any police investigation into claims of murder and abuse inside the church.

Queen Elizabeth II donned the diamond-encrusted Imperial State Crown to announce the government's plans for the next parliamentary session.

3 News' Europe Correspondent talks about her experiences.

An aid worker who helped bring formerly conjoined Bangladeshi twins to Australia where doctors managed to separate them spoke of her relief Wednesday over their successful surgery, as the girls remained in serious but stable condition.

Hertfordshire local Stuart Tinner was set the task of hitting the crossbar from 30m out - to win more than $560,000.

Money had already changed hands before the Tongan Govt asked watchdog whether Princess Ashika would be an asset

The worst storm of the year was just what a pair of British kite surfers had been waiting for.

With the political and civil unrest now behind them, the people of East Timor should be looking to the future.

The surgery was remarkable, but another special moment lies ahead for the conjoined twins, now separated in Melbourne

A little British girl suffering from cancer has been given the gift of life through donations from over 25,000 people.

A Russian icebreaker carrying over 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on a cruise around Antarctica is struggling to free itself from sea ice but was not in any danger, a shipping company has said.

President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao have emerged from their first full-blown summit with scant progress beyond goodwill.

Hundreds of students took to the streets of Lahore protesting against perceived American interference in Pakistan's internal politics.

The captain of the Princess Ashika warned passengers over a loudspeaker to prepare for an emergency just one minute before the vessel sank, killing 74 people.

Bangladeshi conjoined twins Krishna and Trishna have been separated in a procedure which took two years to plan and a marathon 27 hours to complete.

Britain's security depends on its success in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in a speech, seeking to convince a sceptical public that his country has no choice but to keep fighting there.

President Barack Obama prodded China about internet censorship and free speech, but the message was not widely heard in China where his words were blocked online and shown on only one regional television channel.

A young British mother who admitted abandoning her children so she could go on a drink and drugs binge has walked free from court.

A team of Australian surgeons are working on a delicate and complicated surgery to separate twin sisters who are joined at the top of the head.

Space shuttle Atlantis rocketed into orbit Monday with six astronauts and a full load of spare parts for the International Space Station.

Aiming beyond mere rivalry, President Barack Obama has declared in his first visit to China that the US and the Chinese carry a "burden of leadership" as he meets with President Hu Jintao to confront climate change, nuclear proliferation and other urgent global problems. Economic and trade tensions shadowed their talks.

In Australia, a 12-year old boy has been arrested and held in a police cell for several hours over the theft of a 70 cent chocolate Freddo Frog.

It is a top ten world economy with a population of nearly 200 million and an expected GDP growth of 4.5 percent this year.

President Barack Obama is walking a tightrope on his first trip to China, seeking to enlist help in tackling urgent global problems while weighing when and how - or if - he should raise traditional human rights concerns.

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is about to hit the headlines again. She is to launch a book that has new allegations which have already raised hackles and have opponents fighting back.

Soane Haseli was the first and last person to have radio contact with the Princess Ashika. He is the head coast watch officer, and logs of his communication with the vessel were made public at today’s hearing.

Hopes for a global climate change deal have taken a big hit, with leaders at the APEC summit failing to agree on targets for reducing emissions.

Police in the UK are investigating a stampede at a free concert in Birmingham after more than 60 people were injured.

As many as 150,000 poor British children were shipped off to the colonies over three and a half centuries, often taken from struggling families under programs intended to provide them with a new start - and the Empire with a supply of sturdy white workers.

Iraqi civilians who were detained by British troops during the US-led war have levelled some 33 allegations of rape and abuse against male and female soldiers, Britain's Ministry of Defense said Saturday.

A New Zealand woman has been hospitalised after a speeding train derailed in western India.

Police say a low-flying pelican distracted a driver in Texas, causing him to veer off a road and drive his million-dollar sports car into a salt marsh.

The APEC meeting in Singapore has wound up, with Prime Minister John Key meeting US president Barack Obama.

Suddenly, the moon looks exciting again. It has lots of water, scientists said Friday - a thrilling discovery that sent a ripple of hope for a future astronaut outpost in a place that has always seemed barren and inhospitable.

Times are changing inside the home of Big Ben.

Self-proclaimed September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be brought to trial in a civilian federal courthouse in New York, near the site of the devastating 2001 terror attacks. Prosecutors expect to seek the death penalty.

A big fleet of up to 20 icebergs is drifting north towards New Zealand, after passing sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island.

The Army psychiatrist accused in the Fort Hood shootings was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the military's legal system, making him eligible for the death penalty if convicted, officials said Thursday.

British surfers have just been given an artificial reef like the one at Mt Maunganui.

The President of the United States, Barack Obama is arriving late to APEC and New Zealand is not waiting around for him.

A woman who was attacked by a chimpanzee earlier this year has spoken out about her ordeal for the first time.

Next month world leaders will meet to confront climate change in Copenhagen and they in turn will be confronted with new evidence about how urgently they need to act.