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A hunter who was missing in the Southern Alps south of Nelson has made his way to safety, say police. .

He had been hunting alone off the Rotoroa Track while other members of his party hunted the western side of the lake, said Senior Sergeant John Maxwell of Nelson Bays Search and Rescue.

A dog team followed what was believed to be Mr Manson’s foot prints, which led south toward the Sabine Hut.

Mr Manson had hunted the area previously but was ill prepared for the conditions, he said.

The Nelson Search and Rescue helicopter was also called in but was hampered by the inclement weather.

Search and rescue tracking staff continued to brave the conditions into the early hours of Sunday morning before the search was called off, Mr Maxwell said.

About 30 people took part in the search earlier today before Mr Manson walked to safety himself.

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US President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation. . Obama’s name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president. “His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.

“Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the committee said.

“Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics.”

The committee said it attached special importance to Obama’s vision of, and work for, a world without nuclear weapons. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play,” the committee said. Former President Jimmy Carter won the award in 2002, while former Vice President Al Gore shared the 2007 prize with the UN panel on climate change.

Theodore Roosevelt won the award in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson won in 1919.

In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses.

The Nobel committee received a record 205 nominations for this year’s prize. Sweden and Norway were united under the same crown at the time of Nobel’s death.”

Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish institutions, he said the peace prize should be given out by a five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament.

The committee has taken a wide interpretation of Nobel’s guidelines, expanding the prize beyond peace mediation to include efforts to combat poverty, disease and climate change.

The committee has taken a wide interpretation of Nobel’s guidelines, expanding the prize beyond peace mediation to include efforts to combat poverty, disease and climate change

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Anti-smacking campaigner Sue Bradford has received chilling death threats and been warned she could be New Zealand’s “first political assassination”.

Police are looking at stepping up her personal security after the vile warnings on Twitter. Some of it is pretty nasty. The Green MP said: “There has been a whole lot of stuff.

“There is another email that was really ugly a few weeks ago that we referred to police.”

She told : “I was on Twitter and someone sent a tweet saying, ‘Sue Bradford should be the first candidate for a political assassination’.”

Voters have been bitterly divided over the issue.”

Bradford, the architect of the anti-smacking legislation, added: “I have become the iconic symbol for the opponents, for the people who want to change the law back.

Bradford, an MP for 10 years, received a backlash of threats and abuse after the bill was passed on May 16, 2007. Opponents argue that the law prevents parents from disciplining their kids and prosecutions can rip families apart. I copped it for many years earlier on for standing up for unemployed people and beneficiaries and being a street protestor.

She told this week: “I have been copping it for four years.”

She has moved house several times to protect her privacy. It is what happens when you stand up for what you believe.

The issue still rumbles on despite the $9 million referendum when 87. She also has special dispensation from Parliament to leave her name and address off the electoral roll. .6 per cent voted ‘No’ to “Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?”

Bradford said that as well as being abused and intimidated, her office had been flooded with letters and emails from parents telling her they would go on whacking their children.

One hateful opponent threatened to make a sawn-off shotgun to take out Bradford and any MPs who supported her. In 2007, she was targeted with menacing taunts on the CYFS Watch website.

There were also threats to publish her home address unless she backed down.

Another nutter, intent on teaching her the difference between a smack and a serious assault, threatened to punch her, “hopefully breaking her nose or jaw”.

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She said at the time: “I think it’s indicative of some of the people that are campaigning against me

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A Hungarian tourist severely beat an elderly gay man with a red banjo then shoved the instrument’s broken neck half way down his throat, a court has heard.

Ferdinand Ambach, 32, a dive master from Hungary, went on trial this morning at the High Court in Auckland for the murder of 69-year-old Ron Brown in his Onehunga home on December 7, 2007.

Mr Brown died in hospital two days after the alleged attack when his life support was turned off. They struck up a conversation and seemed to be getting on well.

In his opening statement, Crown prosecutor Nick Williams said Ambach had been in New Zealand for about one month when he met Mr Brown one evening at the Bar 306 in Onehunga.30pm they left together and bought beer from a close toby bottle store, he said.

About 9.

They then went by taxi to Mr Brown’s two-storey unit in Onehunga, where they drank the beers, then turned to bourbon and coke.

The neighbour phoned Mr Brown, who asked him to call police.

Later that night, a neighbour in an adjacent unit heard loud “crashing and banging” and could feel the vibration through the wall, Mr Williams said.

When the police arrived at 12. .

They found Mr Brown slumped over the bottom of the stairs with the banjo neck sticking out of his mouth and making a sound like he was snoring, Mr Williams said.38am, they saw Ambach throwing a double bed mattress out of a broken, second floor window.

Ambach was arrested and, having cut his finger on the broken window, was taken to hospital.

Ambach was arrested and, having cut his finger on the broken window, was taken to hospital.

He considered leaving but could not find an exit and did not have any money, Mr Williams said.

Ambach later told police he remembered only flashes of what happened but recalled Mr Brown placing his hand on his groin, then chasing him around a table and throwing things at him.

The trial is expected to take three weeks.

This afternoon the jury will travel to Onehunga to view the murder scene.

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A minder for the Department of Labour’s chief executive is necessary to sort out the “shambles and mess” at the immigration service, Prime Minister John Key says.

An Auditor-General’s report released this month said the service, part of the Department of Labour, was focused on processing as many visas as possible without worrying about quality.

“This meant that staff who were under pressure to meet quantity targets had incentives to approve visas and permits, rather than decline them,” the report said.

The division was set up by the service’s former boss Mary Anne Thompson in 2005, who resigned last year after accusations of a conflict of interest in helping overseas family members gain residency.

The report found problems were worse in the Pacific Division than elsewhere in the service.

Ms Thompson is facing court action on fraud and dishonesty charges.

It was also alleged that she did not have a doctorate from the London School of Economics that many people believed she had when she applied for jobs earlier in her career. .

“This was a shambles and a mess left to us by the Labour Government,” Mr Key said said on TVNZ’s Breakfast programme.

The service last week reviewed its decision on 29-year-old Lithuanian tourist Jurga Skiauteris, so she and her family were allowed to remain in New Zealand until the birth of her baby.”

A person would be appointed to “ride shot-gun” and help change the immigration service, Mr Key said.

“Immigration is part of the Department of Labour so it doesn’t just have immigration to worry about it has ACC, it has employment law, it has a lot of different areas.

Dr Coleman told TV1′s Q+A show that the Auditor-General’s report was “very bad”.

He was confident Immigration Minister Jonathan Coleman could “sort it”.

The problems meant some people may be in New Zealand who should not be and others with legitimate rights may have been turned away, he said.

The problems meant some people may be in New Zealand who should not be and others with legitimate rights may have been turned away, he said.

Two years was the “outside limit” for changes to be made and New Zealand to have “a superb immigration service”.

The cost and risks of separating the immigration service out of the Department of Labour were too high, Dr Coleman said.

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Lonely hearts duped online

– Wednesday, 25 February 2009

Lonely and vulnerable Cantabrians could be losing thousands of dollars to internet-savvy con artists, police warn.
Senior Constable Kirk Newman, of the Christchurch police, said he had received complaints from three men in a week who had been sent fraudulent travellers' cheques by overseas scammers.
The warning comes ahead of Fraud Awareness Week, which starts on Monday.
The con artist chooses email addresses after the person advertises an item online.
However, Newman said the number of people duped by the travellers' cheque con artists was higher than reported because victims were too embarrassed to lay official complaints. She is now posing as an information technology worker.
Soon after, an unsolicited email arrives from a female whose name and occupation changes.
"It's probably not even a woman," he said. I think it's sad, the number of lonely people we have in our city that will grab onto anything for some form of affection. "It could just as well be a bloke.
Emails were exchanged until the scammer says they are coming to New Zealand on holiday and sends several thousand United States dollars' worth of forged travellers cheques."
Newman said the tone of the email was "chatty" to lure the recipient in as a friend.
Newman said the forged travellers' cheques appear to be authentic.
Then the scammer says that her assistant has mistakenly sent too many travellers' cheques and asks the recipient to keep some money back for their troubles while returning the balance, in cash, by Western Union.
"Once money is put into Western Union it will vanish and can be accessed anywhere in the world not just where the baddies say that they are living," Newman said.
"Once money is put into Western Union it will vanish and can be accessed anywhere in the world not just where the baddies say that they are living," Newman said.
Fraud Awareness Week starts on Monday.
Psychologist Sara Chatwin said those who have email relationships with potential scam artists usually fall into two groups those who are too busy for social interaction and those who have self-esteem issues and enjoy the anonymity of the internet.scamwatch. Visit www.nz .govt.

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Body-on-bonnet murder trial begins

By LYN HUMPHREYS – Tuesday, 24 February 2009

The trial of a New Plymouth woman accused of murder in the bizarre, body-on-the-bonnet case will start today.
The jury was empanelled yesterday but Justice Rhys Harrison postponed proceedings for a day because a witness was not available. .
Cindy Marcia Fairburn, 38, of New Plymouth, has denied murdering her former partner, Darin Paul Maxwell, 42, on State Highway 3 on August 6, 2007. An earlier depositions hearing was told she had driven from Inglewood with Mr Maxwell on the bonnet.
He was clinging to the bonnet at the time of impact.
Fairburn herself was seriously injured and lost a leg as a result of the crash.
Fairburn also denies dangerous driving resulting in injury to the driver of the four-wheel drive.

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The Crown, represented by Crown solicitor Tim Brewer and prosecutor Cherie Clarke, will call 17 witnesses while the defence, represented by Susan Hughes QC and Pamela Jensen, intends to call six witnesses, including a forensic psychiatrist