Two New Zealand directors are trying to emulate previous New Zealand winners and take the top prize for a short film at the Cannes Film Festival in France. Audio ...

Norway's prime minister has marked the first anniversary of Anders Behring Breivik's mass killing spree by saying bombs and bullets had failed to defeat Norwegian values. Audio The government of ...

A Pacific advocate for youth homelessness says the country must address poverty and systemic inequities to fix the housing ...

Minnie Dean became the first (and only) woman to be executed for murder in New Zealand. Found guilty by the Supreme Court in Invercargill in 1895 for the murder of one-year-old Dorothy Carter, Dean ...

In Papua New Guinea, more than 31 instances of polio have been detected since the disease re-emerged earlier this year. The ...

A man who strangled his girlfriend to death and lived in the same flat as her decaying corpse for nearly a month is to be released from jail. Gordon Hieatt murdered his girlfriend, Nuttidar Vaikaew, ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 has struck Indonesia's West Papua region. The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) ...

MPs are back for a two-week sitting block, with a smorgasbord of proposed laws scheduled for debate. Here are the bills up ...

The Reserve Bank of Australia has delivered its third interest rate cut of 2025, with a 0.25 percentage point reduction at ...

A Canterbury dairy farmer has created an online community for other females in farming to share her knowledge and connect ...

In part two, community sports organisations are crying out for more more volunteers after a 40% drop in people signing up ...

Four years after Afghans desperate to evacuate Kabul fell to their deaths from a departing US plane, their families still ...