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Trade union workers at the Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc mine in Indonesia's Papua will stop work indefinitely from today if the company does not suspend those suspected of...

The owners of the Grasberg mine in Indonesia's Papua province have denied there were complaints about a part of the mine operations before it collapsed last month. The world's biggest...

United Future leader Peter Dunne says this has been one of the nastiest weeks in his nearly 30-year political career. Audio

A second accident at Freeport McMoRan's copper mine in Indonesia's Papua province in under three weeks, killed a driver, threatened to cause a prolonged closure there, and hit global supplies...

A second accident at Freeport McMoRan's copper mine in Indonesia's Papua province in under three weeks threatened on Friday to cause a prolonged closure and hit global supplies of the...

A second accident at Freeport McMoRan's copper mine in Indonesia's Papua province in under three weeks, threatened on Friday to cause a prolonged closure there, and hit global supplies of...

Archaeologists in Mexico have found 4926 cave paintings at 11 different caves in the north-eastern region of Burgos. They depict humans, animals and insects.

Rescue work is continuing at the giant Freeport-McMoran gold and copper mine in Indonesia's Papua province after a tunnel collapsed on Tuesday, trapping about 25 workers. Police say four miners...

Four workers have been pulled alive from a tunnel that caved in at Freeport McMoran's Grasberg gold and copper mine in Indonesia's Papua province. But the local police say about...

A descendant of the Ngapuhi chief Hone Heke says the warrior's bones will be reburied on sacred ground in Northland in June.

A coroner hearing evidence of how a Czech tourist was killed in South Canterbury says he supports a police warning that travellers should not hitch-hike.

Officials in Sudan say more than 60 miners were killed in the Darfur region when a 40 metre gold mine they were working in collapsed.

Officials in Bangladesh say at least 150 people are now known to have died after an eight-storey building near the capital Dhaka collapsed.

At least 70 people have been killed and hundreds are feared trapped after an eight-storey building collapsed in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, according to emergency services.

A leaked document from the Department of Conservation shows staff are worried restructuring and job losses could lead to another disaster like Cave Creek. Audio

A Northern Marianas Senator says the territory's economy could receive a major boost if a private company's plan to export bottled water from the island of Rota comes to fruition.

Officials in Mumbai say at least 70 people died when a multi-storey building collapsed on Thursday evening, at least 17 of them children.

Rain fell throughout much of the country on Monday, following patchy showers on Sunday, but drought-stricken farmers say much more is needed - and soon. Audio

MetService said on Monday there should be a reprieve in the next two days for Gisborne - one of the few areas in the drought-stricken North Island yet to get any rain.