It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 180 kilogram tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons…

In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of…

1. 3D printed gun plans now on Pirate Bay

The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused US$2…

1. video Crews race to find survivors of Tornado (2:25)

Helen Clark has been ranked as the 21st most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine.

1. video Watch: The world's richest people (1:15)

A pre-trial hearing for an ex pat New Zealander accused of murdering his wife in Canada has been adjourned…

1. Kiwi's murder trial in Canada set for May, 2013

Neill Ellis says seeing the twister's destruction was terrible, and the noise was "very, very scary".

1. video Woman finds her dog amid tornado wreckage (0:30)

President Barack Obama vowed that the United States would stand behind Oklahoma as it struggled to fill the "empty spaces"…

1. video Tornado: Families begin returning to their homes (1:07)

David Cameron's leadership came under further pressure as 133 Conservative MPs voted against gay marriage and the British…

1. video France legalises gay marriage after harsh debate (0:57)

Two key challengers in the race to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as President of Iran have been banned from taking part in…

1. Iran: Two executed for spying for Israel and US

The battle to keep Tibetans under control is inflicting severe psychological damage on Chinese armed…

1. Careful thought on Dalai Lama's Dunedin speech

A far-right French historian committed suicide at the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral yesterday by shooting himself in the…

A man was charged last night over a notorious IRA bombing in London in 1982 which killed four British soldiers on ceremonial…

1. Warning on Irish troubles

Shareholders at JPMorgan Chase voted to let Jamie Dimon, the chairman and chief executive, keep both his jobs. At the bank's…

1. Wall St gains on Fed stimulus talk

It's the ultimate in a paperless future - a scanner that reproduces digitally. Japan's technology giant, Fujitsu, has been…

Two Oklahoma teens were able to use their cell phones from inside a storm shelter to get video of a…

A man believed to be a serving British soldier was brutally murdered Wednesday near a London barracks in what Prime Minister…

NZ Air Force teaching the Haka to rugby players at Model High School for the Deaf in Washington DC.

EU leaders, desperate to boost growth, target energy policy at a summit on Wednesday amid concerns a US-led revolution in…

A brutal attack in broad daylight near a military barracks in London left one man dead and two suspects hospitalised after…

An anti-fascist member of the Femen movement poses topless with a gun in Notre Dame in Paris, one day…

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

Egyptian troops and police mistakenly fired on a Bedouin funeral in the Sinai Peninsula today, security officials said…

1. Egyptian security personnel abducted in Sinai

The United States Senate sharply questioned the chief executive of Apple, the world's most valuable company, over allegations…

1. Apple defends its Irish tax