Delegates at the USNZ Pacific Partnership Forum meeting in Washington DC have expressed sorrow at the…

1. video Tornado horror: Reunited dad and son (1:19)

Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla. And when they did, the…

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

Two endangered sea turtles that are shells of their former selves after getting stranded on Cape Cod during a cold spell…

1. Orphaned polar bear arrives at New York zoo

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

1. Pistorius pleads not guilty in crash case

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

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…

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

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

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

Packing winds of up to 320km, the killer tornado that laid waste to Oklahoma on Monday grasped at the deadliest end of the…

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

Many houses have "just been taken away. They're just sticks and bricks," Gov. Mary Fallin said, describing…

1. video Oklahoma: Huge tornado kills dozens (1:15)

Controversy continued to swirl around the White House yesterday with developments on two fronts.

1. Obama vows US support as Myanmar leader visits

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's change of heart to support gay marriage may indicate numbers shifting in support…

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

Former Napier city councillor Peter Beckett, 56, is standing trial at Salmon Arm Provincial Court for the murder of his…

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

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

1. Attacks kill 95 in Iraq, hint of Syrian spillover

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

1. Mike Dillon: Waterhouse soap opera has wider implications (2 comments)

Yesterday's meeting between Murray McCully and John Kerry in Washington DC was a sign that things between the US and New…

1. Politics: Back in the USA

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

1. Man shot point-blank in NYC hate crime

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

1. Audrey Young: Wrong audience for Bolger tirade (49 comments)

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. High school dropout who made a fortune

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

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 (213 comments)

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

1. photos Eurovision Song Contest 2013 (13 photos)