Direct flights from Yemen to Britain will be banned as a key part of new anti-terrorist measures following the failed attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner, Gordon Brown announced yesterday.

Yemeni officials say hundreds of al-Qaida members could be living in the country.

Sick of surprises, Bloomberg News columnist Matthew Lynn offers a few more wild guesses for the business world in 2010.

A report by three top climate think-tanks says efforts planned by NZ to cut greenhouse gases stack up better than the EU's.

Many lights designed to adorn Christmas trees could cause serious injury or death, according to secret tests revealed today.

Shares on Wall Street have edged lower as US consumers held back on purchases at the start of the holiday shopping season.

Scientists claim the world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C

Gordon Brown has announced tough new rules on student visas and cut the number of skilled foreign workers allowed into Britain.

Hone Harawira says the only adverse comments he's had about leaving Brussels to sightsee in Paris have been from the media.

"How many times in my lifetime am I going to get to Europe? So I thought, 'F*** it, I'm off. I'm off to Paris'," Maori MP Hone Harawira said.

New Zealand bio-security and food safety authorities moved proactively this morning to announce the discovery of a brain disease that affects sheep.