Police are half way through recovering thousands of cars from the Christchurch central business district devastated by the February 22 earthquake.

British Prime Minister David Cameron and his Chancellor, George Osborne, this week delivered a Budget that was unambiguous in backing business to lead the nation out of the economic doldrums.

More than 510 businesses, or 2000 people, have been granted access to buildings within the cordoned area.

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Burma has killed up to 10 people overnight.

Workers loaded trucks with boxes of bottled water to distribute across the city today after residents cleared store shelves following warnings that Tokyo's tap water had elevated radiation coming from Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear complex

Herald reporter Michael Dickison, who is fluent in Japanese, reports from a remarkably changed Tokyo.

Herald reporter Michael Dickison has been travelling through the devastation on the coast of Japan. Yesterday, he visited Sendai.

CTV building survivor Anne Malcolm wants a simple question answered: Who is the man helping her in this photo?

Herald reporter Michael Dickison grew up in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese. He returned last week to report on the ravaged countryside of his other homeland

The Japan tsunami has derailed the Government's plan to put out the begging bowl to the world to pay for the rebuilding of Christchurch.