Tourists and New Yorkers have been slammed for taking selfies while visiting the scene last week's devastating gas explosion in the East Village.

Police searching for a missing 11-year-old boy and his stepfather have gone back into the water at Curio Bay in Southland, where they have found a vehicle earlier identified by underwater camera.

Pilots and cabin crew refused to fly over concerns the crash may have been linked to a repair to the nose-wheel landing doors, according to an unconfirmed report in Spiegel magazine

The shocked families of the dead stood vigil in Barcelona airport all day, in tears, leaving only after night fell and police ushered them out.

The driver of a suspected stolen truck tried to ram a police car before travelling the wrong way down Auckland’s Southern Motorway during a police chase.

A person has died in an incident involving a tractor on a farm near Oxford in Canterbury, police say.

Dozens of military personnel were injured when an RAF transport plane nose-dived 4,400ft after the captain's camera became lodged alongside the aircraft's joystick.

A 21 year-old woman has handed herself into Auckland police after a hit and run that left a man with serious injuries on Sunday morning.

Six Dunedin students are lucky to be alive after their car was torn apart in a horrific crash.

A woman frantically chopped off a girl's hair to save her life, after the girl's hair became tangled in the wheels of a kart when playing with a school friend.

A car has flipped while towing a trailer with another car in it on a motorway south of Auckland this afternoon.

A man was flown to hospital after being seriously injured in a water skiing accident at Taupo today.

A young girl has suffered a head injury after her hair caught in a go-kart yesterday, in what was described as an "unusual incident".

A man killed in an industrial incident south of Timaru yesterday has been named.

A man who died in a two-car crash in Christchurch yesterday has been described as "a loving man" with a "one-of-a-kind authentic personality".

A pedestrian is dead after a truck hit them last night.

Facing a parliamentary select committee at the age of 10 and under the gaze of television cameras caused a few nerves, Sean Roberts admitted afterwards.

A German tourist driver involved in a head-on collision on the yesterday has been charged with careless driving causing injury.

Moves to prevent crashes involving foreign drivers have been encouraging but need to go further, say two boys who lost their father in such an accident.

One person has died in a crash in south Auckland this morning.

A tourist allegedly driving on the wrong side of the road hit another car head-on on the State Highway 6 Coast Road between Greymouth and Westport this morning.

A new traffic light at a Dunedin intersection - officially turned on just last month - was knocked over yesterday.

A man has been rescued after being "severely trapped" after crashing into a power pole in Auckland this evening.

A woman suffered serious head injuries in a collision between a car and a truck today on State Highway 1.