Cellphone entrepreneur tries again, with venture targeting emerging markets.

Check out what's being said online about Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's shock decision to resign.

The White House is adamant that genuine and rapid change is needed in Egypt.

Violence and bloodshed could break out in a massive protest march on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's palace tomorrow, a New Zealander in Cairo reports.

It’s appropriate that a city whose wealth was partly due to a locally grown aphrodisiac should have its rises and falls.

Jill Worrall visits the carvings of Wadi Methkandoush, which have been incised into the rocky walls of a valley about 400km due south of Libya's capital Tripoli.

New Zealand news cameraman Olaf Wiig has been hurt dodging a molotov cocktail in Egypt as he covered riots for Fox News.

NZ's forest ecosystems are the second most threatened in the world and house only 5 per cent of their original habitat, according to an international report.

Political unrest in Egypt could mean Kiwis paying more at the petrol pump, after oil prices climbed to their highest point in 28 months.

A New Zealander who managed to flee the turmoil in Egypt says he feared for his safety, and getting a flight out had been "a bit of a gamble". "I just was trying my best to remain calm. It's rather nerve-wracking to have gunfire and so on

For a seventh day, protesters have flooded downtown Cairo, rejecting a new government under President Hosni Mubarak.

It's hard not to feel both hope and trepidation at what is unfolding in Egypt, writes Herald foreign desk editor Nicola Lamb.

Diplomats in Cairo are doing all they can to help New Zealanders leave Egypt, Prime Minister John Key said today, while families here are fearing for their loved ones who remain in the crisis-torn country.

Kiwis with relatives in crisis-torn Egypt say they are worried about what might happen next. More than 100 people have been killed and thousands injured in anti-government riots as protesters demand that President Mubarak resigns.

Gill South sits down with leadership coach Sally Anderson to have herself pushed in the right direction.