One Pistorius brother is free of charges - acquitted today of culpable homicide in the death of a woman…

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U.S. officials say they have identified five men they believe might be behind the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi…

1. Petraeus email objected to Benghazi talking points

The United States wants to continue a criminal data matching scheme for assessing risks of threats that it began with New…

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A Moroccan court has convicted two men of homosexuality and public indecency, and sentenced each to four months in prison…

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Iraq is edging closer to all-out sectarian war between Sunni and Shia Muslims as a series of car bombings…

1. Al-Qaeda linkage spurs rebel split

Australia's internet gambling king Tom Waterhouse is feeling the blast from outrage over live betting odds.

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Thousands of people marched through the streets of Manhattan to protest against the killing of a gay man allegedly taunted…

1. NYPD to up presence after bias killing of gay man

An impressive line-up of six former trade ministers of the United States formed a panel yesterday at the US NZ Pacific Partnership…

Yahoo's chief executive is making a US$1.1 billion ($1.3 billion) bet on the online blogging forum Tumblr as Marissa Mayer…

1. Report: Yahoo nearing $1.1b acquisition of Tumblr

British woman Laura Fernee says she is too attractive to work and has been unemployed for the last two…

1. Migration gain as fewer head for Oz

Aucklander Cam Rhodes has described a darkening sky, running from golf ball-sized hail and the sound of a "bomb exploding"…

1. School hit by direct blow

Can socks, or rather an absence of them, save Pakistan this summer? In the latest directive from the country's caretaker…

1. Waterspouts form over harbour

It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped…

1. Yahoo's big leap with $1.1b Tumblr deal

Soon after a monstrous, deadly tornado slammed into the community of Moore, Tiffany Thronesberry's phone rang. Her mother…

1. video Huge Tornado kills dozens (1:15)

Iraq's wave of bloodshed has sharply escalated with more than a dozen car bombings across the country…

1. video Wave of attacks kills scores in Iraq (1:08)

A powerful tornado has swept through a Midwestern US state leaving up to 91 people dead.

1. video Raw: Rescuers pull Tornado survivors to safety (1:19)

Three Brazilian tourists have died and 22 other people were hurt after two hot-air balloons collided in central Turkey…

1. video Raw: Bodies fall out of exploding balloon (1:24)

A Swedish co-founder of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has gone on trial, charged with hacking and stealing data from…

President Barack Obama has told Myanmar's president during a long-awaited White House meeting that he appreciates the Asian…

1. As rain from cyclone falls, Myanmar minority stay

A Tunisian feminist who scandalised her country by posting topless photos of herself online has been…

New Zealand edged a step closer to committing peacekeepers to a new area of the Middle East.

1. video Kerry praises NZ as 'global partner' (2:01)

Syrian troops have pushed into a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, fighting house-to-house and bombing from the…

1. Al-Qaeda linkage spurs rebel split

Foreign Minister Murray McCully will tomorrow offer the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, New Zealand's assistance in the…

1. Bob Jones: NZ should abolish its armed forces (146 comments)

Denmark won this year's Eurovision Song Contest in the Swedish city of Malmoe early Sunday with the song Only Teardrops…

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