There is "every chance" the 29 men missing after Friday's coal mine explosion in New Zealand are still alive, says Prime Minister John Key.

A US passenger jet bound for Moscow lands safely at New York's John F Kennedy airport after reporting engine problems.

The main opposition group in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, says more than 1,000 of its members have been held ahead of elections next week.

Japan's Justice Minister Minoru Yanagida resigns after causing outrage for joking about how easy his job was.

Children may be safer growing up in the Afghan capital Kabul than they are in London, Glasgow or New York, a Nato official says.

The war crimes trial of former Congolese rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba is to start at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Evidence of a new North Korean nuclear plant is disappointing and provocative, says the top US envoy on North Korea, Stephen Bosworth.

All 29 trapped miners are safely rescued from a flooded coal mine in south-west China.