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Philip Duncan: 10 ways to make air travel more enjoyable
With all the gales in Wellington recently a conversation started on Twitter about turbulence when you fly in to the…
Aviation: First Dreamliner service arrives in NZ
The first scheduled 787 Dreamliner flight to New Zealand has just arrived at Auckland Airport. The China Southern Airlines aircraft,…
Major storm on track to slam UK, France (+ 7 maps)
Forecasts remain fairly consistent with the track of the “St Jude storm” bringing the low pressure centre to the south…
Space travel on a budget (+Pics)
Want space travel but don’t have pockets deep enough for Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic or the courage levels to match…
India: Floods kill dozens of people
Flash floods swept Saturday through the eastern Indian states of Odisha, where at least 19 people were killed, and Andhra…
Week in Weather – What’s been Making Headlines this week
Most eyes this week will have been looking across the Tasman – specifically at New South Wales, where bushfires have…
M7.3 quake hits east of Japan, small tsunami generated (+map)
Updated 7:32am — A tsunami warning has been issued in Japan following a 7.3 quake which struck a short time…
Australia: Bushfires blaze in Blue Mountains
Firefighters are working to strengthen containment lines around three blazes burning uncontained in the Blue Mountains as the bushfire emergency…
Australia: Firefighters make progress in NSW
Thousands of firefighters will today continue to hold the line against the fires rampaging to the west and north of…
Australia – ‘Megafire’ threatens NSW communities
Rural fire chief says some communities to Sydney’s west might be ‘simply unsaveable’. The unique landscape that made disaster inevitable…
