Wellington - More than 30 Indian youths have disappeared in New Zealand, where they were in transit to go to Sydney for World Youth Day, a spokeswoman for the Catholic Church said on Monday.

Lyndsay Freear told Radio New Zealand that a party of 220 Indian Catholics who arrived in Auckland a week ago were due to fly to Sydney on Tuesday, but 32 of them had disappeared.

All were billeted with church members in Auckland under a so-called Days in the Diocese programme before going to Australia, where Pope Benedict arrived on Sunday for events associated with World Youth Day.

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Wellington - New Zealand will protest to Indonesia about a sudden and "completely unwarranted" ban on its beef exports, Trade Minister Phil Goff said on Friday.

Wellington - Foreign ministers of six Pacific countries will go to Fiji next week for talks on the prospect of a new election, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced on Thursday.

Wellington - The Royal Society of New Zealand, whose members are the country's most eminent scientists, moved Thursday to settle the debate over global warming with a statement declaring unequivoca