Wellington  - When Australian Akshay Miranda, 22, was buried with his brother under a collapsing ice shelf on a New Zealand glacier, he had the keys of the family's rental car his pocket.

Akshay's body remains trapped under tonnes of ice at the Fox Glacier, but the rental company is billing his parents, Ronnie and Winnie Miranda of Melbourne, hundreds of dollars for a new transponder key and towing the car 418 kilometres back to its base in Christchurch.

"Nobody will do it for free," company director Edwin Chan told reporters Wednesday. "We feel for them."

But he added: "If there are things that are going to cost the company, we have no choice but to recover the costs."

Wellington, Jan. 13 : Over 400 foreign students have been kicked out of New Zealand in the past four years for crimes or indiscretions, and many others have been caught trying to use forged certificates and degrees.

According to a report in stuff. co. nz, about 750,000 dollars of taxpayers'' money was spent forcibly removing the errant students, nearly 300 of whom required police escorts back to their home countries after being assessed as security or safety risks.

The foreigners most commonly from China, India and South Korea had breached permit conditions, worked illegally, dropped out of courses or committed crimes, such as driving, drug and firearms offences.

Wellington  - The flood-stricken Pacific island state of Fiji braced Tuesday for more torrential rains as another tropical depression was forecast to arrive later in the day, according to reports from the capital Suva.

A state of emergency has already been declared over wide areas of the main island Viti Levu, where three towns, including Nadi, site of the country's international airport, are under water and a night-time curfew is in place to prevent looting.

The official death toll has been updated to three, with four people listed as missing.

Wellington  - Two Australian brothers died when they were crushed under an estimated 100 tons of falling ice as they took photographs on New Zealand's Fox Glacier on Thursday.

The men, in their early 20s, were with their parents and extended family on a vacation trip to New Zealand.

A 30-metre wall of ice collapsed on top of them after they crossed safety barriers to get a closer look at the terminal face of the 14- kilometre long glacier.

Wellington - Two tourists were killed Thursday when an ice shelf collapsed on them at the Fox Glacier in New Zealand's Southern Alps, the TV3 channel reported.

The body of one victim was recovered but the second was trapped under 30 tons of ice and rescuers would not be able to get to it until Friday morning, the report said.

Early reports of the accident were confusing, with some saying that four people were involved in the ice collapse which was believed to have occurred outside safe areas on the 14-kilometre long glacier roped off by the Department of Conservation (DOC).

DOC area manager Jo Macpherson told TV3, "The terminal face of the Fox Glacier is very steep at present and subject to random ice collapses."

Wellington (New Zealand), Jan. 7 : West Indies batsman Kieron Pollard has been officially reprimanded for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during his side’s third ODI against New Zealand at Wellington.

At a hearing that took place after the match on Wednesday, Javagal Srinath of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees found Pollard guilty of causing damage to a dressing room.

The 21-year-old was found to have breached Level 1.2 of the code which relates to “abuse of cricket equipment or clothing, group equipment of fixtures and fittings”.