A semi-attached terrace house in Swansea, Wales, has become an internet sensation - for looking like Adolf Hitler.

Two Hong Kong-based Kiwi graduates have slammed a renowned NZ scientist's suggestion that overseas graduates should pay back outstanding student loans to help finance the Christchurch rebuild.

The Christchurch earthquake has generated new cooperation between Australian and New Zealand tourism authorities, with New Zealand offered a free platform to pitch for business at Australia’s major annual tourism trade show.

Overseas NZers who repay their student loans will be "acting heroically" to help pay for Christchurch's rebuild, Sir Paul Callaghan says.

Police have named the man shot dead by a police officer in rural Hawkes Bay early this morning and say it appears the 19-year-old fired a shotgun first before being shot by an officer with a Glock pistol in Fernhill, about 15km from Napier.

Today's fatal police shooting near Napier is the seventh in just over a decade, since Waitara man Steven Wallace's death in 2000.

Police say it is unclear whether an armed man shot dead by an officer in rural Hawke's Bay early this morning had fired his weapon. The man was shot by an officer with a standard issue Glock pistol and died around 3am in hospital this

Prince Charles has comforted grieving family members of Christchurch earthquake victims in London.