Community groups and the Historic Places Trust face a huge claim for costs from the developer who wants to turn the Masonic Hotel

Foreign Minister Murray McCully says around 40 per cent of school children in Pacific Island countries do not complete a basic primary education, and only 20 per cent graduate from secondary school, in opening a Pacific conference ahead..

Ed Vulliamy was only 20 blocks away when the twin towers were attacked by al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001. Here, in this highly personal account, he recalls those devastating first moments and the eerie days that followed.