A MOLOTOV cocktail thrown at a suburban home in Melbourne's west has exploded.
A PLASTIC bottle containing an unknown chemical was thrown at a balcony in Waterloo Road, Oak Park just after 7am on Saturday, Victoria Police spokeswoman Belinda Nolan said.
"The device exploded, causing minor damage to the balcony area," she said."Two occupants were home at the time but no one was injured."THE New Zealand dollar is heading for a 1.7 per cent weekly gain as the oil price slide seemed stemmed.
THE kiwi rose to 78.33 US cents at 5pm in Wellington from 77.02 cents on Friday in New York last week, and was up from 78.17 cents at 8am and 77.93 cents on Thursday.
The trade-weighted index is heading for a 0.8 per cent weekly gain to 79.98 from 79.35 last week, and up from 79.74 on Thursday.The US dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies, has been holding near nine-year highs this week as falling oil prices keep a lid on already tepid global inflation and sapped demand for risk-sensitive assets.At the same time the euro has been under pressure on heightened speculation the European Central Bank will have to print money to fight deflation."Oil has been getting smashed and it's ready to rip - our feeling is the market's found a bit of a low and is due a bounce," said Mitchell McIntyre, corporate FX dealer at NZ Forex in Auckland."Everyone in the market's taking a bit of a breather, and the kiwi's just drifting a little bit higher."Traders are waiting on US non-farm payrolls figures on Friday in Washington to gauge the pace of recovery in the world's biggest economy, with the Federal Reserve looking likely to start unwinding its zero interest rate policy this year.The kiwi increased to 96.20 Australian cents at 5pm in Wellington from 96.04 cents on Thursday, to 4.8626 Chinese yuan from 4.8472 yuan, to 66.34 euro cents from 65.89 cents and to 93.61 yen from 93.26 yen.A SUICIDE bomber driving a minibus full of explosives has killed at least 15 people near a police academy in Yemen's capital, Sanaa.
WEDNESDAY'S blast wounded at least 40 people, officials said.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.Yemen's local al-Qaeda branch, targeted in frequent US drone strikes in the country, has carried out similar attacks in the past. Washington considers al-Qaeda in Yemen to be the world's most dangerous branch of the terror network.The blast comes as Shi'ite rebels known as Houthis seized large areas of Yemen, including Sanaa, as part of a protracted power struggle with President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.An al-Qaeda suicide bomber killed at least 24 people on December 31 in an attack on Houthis as they commemorated the birth of the Prophet Mohammed.
