France's govt yesterday admitted that the country's biggest airport might run out of fuel, as pension reform protesters blockade refineries.

Two teenagers are seriously ill in Middlemore Hospital with extensive burns after a gas cylinder is thought to have exploded in their faces.

NZ oil and gas exploration will get a substantial boost in government resources, including funding to chase deep-sea methane hydrates that have yet to be commercially exploited anywhere in the world.

Petrol prices are falling at Australian pumps - but oil companies in NZ say motorists shouldn't expect the same here.