Wellington, Jan 5 : Parents are being warned not to put holiday photographs of their kids on the Internet because they could end up in collections of child abuse images.

Lee Chisholm, a spokesperson for NetSafe, said that authorities have found holiday pics of kids, pulled off the Internet, in child porn collections.

Auckland psychologist Nathan Gaunt, an expert in online sex abuse and pornography, said that some men who view child abuse images are actively searching the Internet for `child-next-door images'.

"There has definitely been huge interest in `normal'' images of children," The NZPA quoted Gault, as saying.

Wellington, Jan 5 : New Zealand Women''s Golf

Wellington - A 31-year-old Japanese sailor is missing, believed dead, after falling overboard from a Japanese whaling ship in Antarctic waters on Monday, news reports said.

New Zealand's Rescue Coordination Centre said it had relayed a mayday message to ships in the area after being asked to help by the Japanese Coastguard, but the request did not come until six hours after the man was missed from the Kyoshin Maru Number Two.

Wellington  - A 26-year-old New Zealander was recovering Sunday after spending 24 hours swept out to sea by a storm when his jetski broke down.

Nathan Maclure was picked up 13 kilometres off the coast of the South Island on Saturday evening when a Russian trawler came across him in what police described as the "good luck story of the year."

Maclure, who took his jetski out for a spin Friday in a river estuary, survived two severe storms that pelted him with hail and was menaced by three sharks, attracted by jellyfish swimming underneath him.

He fell off his jetski twice before he managed to rope himself to it and told the Sunday Star-Times, "I was really scared."

Wellington, January 3 : A 70-year-old American animal communicator insists that animals do talk, and that horses are his favourite because they are straight talkers.

Bill Northern, who has been visiting New Zealand from the U. S. since 1989, even says that dogs can be too politically correct because they do not like to hurt people's

feelings.

He, however, prefers not to deal with felines because he thinks that cats are fibbers and will say anything to get their way.

"I don''t talk to plants because I don''t have the patience," stuff. co. nz quoted him as saying.

Bill claims that all animals communicate with him in English, irrespective of which country they are in.

Wellington, Jan 2: A piece of pita bread that looks like Jesus Christ is up for sale on an online auction site.

The TradeMe website shows a photo of the pita bread, which broke into pieces after being put in the oven.

One piece, the Kiwi seller said, looked like the face of Jesus Christ.

"I was tempted to eat it but for some reason I didn''t," the NZPA quoted the seller as saying in their auction listing.