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Updated: 9:13pm - US and European aviation authorities have ordered emergency inspections of jet engines similar to the one involved in a fatal accident earlier this week.

Updated: 9:06pm - A woman has been pulled from the cliffs on Wellington's south coast, after falling off the edge during a walk.

Updated: 8:30pm - Peggy Phillips, a retired nurse, was sitting a row in front of Jennifer Riordan when the engine exploded on Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 from New York to Dallas.

Updated: 7:43am - A Christchurch woman's death is not being treated as suspicious, with police believing she has died from a fall. 

Updated: 7:36am - A car in a fatal head-on crash crumpled so badly fire engines were used to stretch it back out lengthwise before emergency workers could properly reach a trapped woman.

Updated: 7:21am - Three Australian warships were challenged by the Chinese military as they travelled through the disputed South China Sea earlier this month.

Updated: 7:12am - The Prince of Wales will succeed the Queen as head of the Commonwealth, its leaders have announced.

Updated: 6:55am - A 35-year-old man who set fire to his wife in 2015 has been sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment by the Suva High court.

Updated: 6:45am - Minister for Transport, Parveen Bala says the Opposition is very much against cars being brought into the country.

Updated: 11:23pm - A police officer and member of the public freed a man from a burning car shortly before it exploded in Papakura, south Auckland.