New Zealand

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- As he made history by becoming the first person to fly across New Zealand's Cook Strait in an electric plane, Gary Freedman thought it only fitting that the first thing he saw when approaching the Wellington coastline was the rotating blade of a wind turbine producing renewable energy.

NEW STATE pension rules which are due to come into force in less than 12 weeks' time will mean that people planning to retire outside the UK won't receive National Insurance credits while living in another country.

PENSIONERS who rely on the UK State Pension but retire abroad are being warned that changes to the pension rules are due to come into force.

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NEW YORK -- Pfizer has started testing its potential COVID-19 treatment as a preventive medicine aimed at warding off the virus if a close contact gets it.The drugmaker said Monday that it will study the pill it is developing in combination with a low dose of the HIV drug ritonavir in people who are at least 18 years old and live in the same household with someone who is infected.