The head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti has
spoken out against
what he called criminal and
irresponsible
acts of violence in the country, which he said had
condemn
ed many Haitians to certain death from cholera. Edmond Mulet was commenting after angry demonstrations this week in parts of Haiti. He suggested that many roads, airports and bridges were still blocked,
impeding
efforts to treat those affected.
Tests are being carried out at a mine in New Zealand where 29 workers remain trapped to see if it's safe to try to rescue them. There's been no communication with the miners since an underground explosion, and there are concerns about the threat of poisonous gases. Police say a power cut is
compromising
the ventilation system in the Pike River Coal Pit in a remote part of the country's South Island.
Two ancient statues stolen from Italian museums in the 1980s have been returned to Rome. One of them, a marble female torso, was only recovered after an Italian policeman on holiday in the United States spotted it in a gallery window. Duncan Kennedy sent this report from Rome.
It was during a stroll down Madison Avenue in New York that Michele Speranza made his discovery.
He said he had remembered it from photos in the police data bank. Mr Speranza took his own photo and looked it up when he returned to Italy. Dating from the 1st century, it had been stolen from a museum south of Rome in 1988. At a news conference, police also