Nick Perry

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Kiwi DNA link spurs rethink of flightless birds

Nick Perry · May 22, 2014 10:26 pm

New Zealand's Finance Minister Bill English, right, walks with Prime Minister John Key, center, on their way to reading the Budget 2014 in Parliament, Wellington, Thursday, May 15, 2014. New Zealand will become one of the first developed nations to return to a budget surplus since the 2008 financial crisis plunged the global economy into recession, the government said. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Mark Mitchell) NEW ZEALAND OUT, AUSTRALIA OUT

New Zealand government projects budget surplus

Nick Perry · May 15, 2014 6:46 am

New Zealand Health Minister Tony Ryall talks about designer drugs on Wednesday, May 7, 2014, in Wellington, New Zealand. The South Pacific nation has reversed course on allowing some designer drugs to be legally sold after a public outcry about the toll they were taking. (AP Photo/Drew Castellaw)

Designer drugs banned in New Zealand after outcry

Nick Perry · May 7, 2014 5:08 am

Energy and Environment

Guides hope Everest deaths will impel safety fixes

Nick Perry · May 3, 2014 6:39 am

New Zealand raises key interest rate to 3 percent

New Zealand raises key interest rate to 3 percent

Nick Perry · April 23, 2014 9:32 pm

New Zealand, Australian men killed in Yemen strike

New Zealand, Australian men killed in Yemen strike

Nick Perry · April 16, 2014 5:38 am

2 powerful earthquakes hit Solomon Islands

2 powerful earthquakes hit Solomon Islands

Nick Perry · April 13, 2014 2:37 pm

Mag-7.6 quake, waves strike Solomon Islands

Mag-7.6 quake, waves strike Solomon Islands

Nick Perry · April 13, 2014 12:35 am

FILE - In this April 5, 2014 file photo, pilots look out of a window from the cockpit in a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon plane as it taxies to the end of the runway to take off from Perth Airport on route to conduct search operations for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in southern Indian Ocean, near the coast of Western Australia. Every day from the Perth airport and a nearby military base, about a dozen planes from several countries take flight to search for debris from missing Flight 370 _ so far without success. The U.S. Defense Department alone committed $7.3 million to the effort in the first month of the search, much of it spent on two U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon planes that cost $4,000 per hour to fly. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

AP Interview: Adam Schantz, US Navy plane searcher

Nick Perry · April 11, 2014 6:10 am

In this Tuesday, April 8, 2014 photo, Leading Aircraftman Andrew Smith works on a propeller of a Royal Australian Air Force P-3 Orion at RAAF Base Pearce after it arrived back from the ongoing search operations for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in Perth, Australia. The ground crews typically work on the tarmac through the night so the planes are ready to fly again by daylight, as the international effort to find some trace of the missing jetliner continues. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

Ground crew work nights to keep MH370 search aloft

Nick Perry · April 9, 2014 10:23 am

A fast response craft manned by members from the Australian Defense's ship Ocean Shield tows Able Seaman Clearance Diver Michael Arnold as they scan the water for debris of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean.

Pinger locator still the best option in jet search

Nick Perry · April 9, 2014 8:10 am

The chief coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Center retired Chief Air Marshall Angus Houston shows a map to the media during a press conference about the on going search operations for wreckage and debris of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in Perth, Australia, Monday, April 7, 2014. Houston reported the towed pinger locator deployed from the Ocean Shield has detected two signals consistent with those emitted by an in flight back box recorder, in the northern part of the current search area in the southern Indian Ocean. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

‘Promising lead’ emerges in hunt for Flight 370

Nick Perry · April 8, 2014 12:39 am