Trade Me is clamping down on the phrases used to sell potentially explosive chemicals, after meeting with the Environmental Risk Management Authority (Erma) today.

Trade Me staff have met with a Wellington teen who allegedly used a fraudulent identity to sell potential bomb ingredients online.

A NZ toddler and his Indian-born mother were turned back from India and interrogated on their return to Auckland Airport because their names were on a terrorism blacklist.

NZ foreign affairs officials are checking a report that Lebanon's Military Tribunal has sentenced a Jordanian New Zealander and six others to hard labour for forming a terrorist group.

Taliban fighters have developed a deadly new generation of their most lethal weapon, the improvised explosive device, or IED, which is almost undetectable because it has no metal or electronic parts, military experts said last week.

PM keen to hear Hillary Clinton's views on what progress has been made towards establishing a corruption-free Government in Afghanistan.

Bombing by double agent highlights vulnerability of CIA.

British intelligence passed on to US authorities about a Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner - but he was not singled out as a particular risk, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's office said Monday.

A terrifying personal account from a passenger aboard the flight that very nearly came crashing down into the suburbs of Detroit on Christmas Day.

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

Extra staffing has helped Auckland Airport to cope despite getting only six hours' notice of strict new travel rules.

Airline passengers to the USA will be isolated from other travellers at Auckland Airport and face a rigorous second set of security checks.

Numerous reports from travellers into the USA have confirmed that the new security measures include random body searches and bans on the use of electronic devices.