The way Rodney Hide has accepted his fate has set an example to the board.

Act leader Rodney Hide is set to resign as party leader, when he makes an announcement...

As Act leader Rodney Hide refuses to resign, Don Brash has met with caucus and board members.

Sunni-Shia hostility in the Muslim world is likely to deepen because of the demolition of Shia holy places in Bahrain.

A foreign security presence may need to remain in East Timor and the Solomons for longer than expected.

Oil states are, by their nature, undemocratic.The despots who have ruled the Arab world for half a century are not giving up without a fight.

Sydney lawyer and author of Once Were Radicals: My Years as a Teenage Islamo-facist writes that republican-steered terrorism hearings entirely off the mark.

Lukashenko blasts 'cheap trick' but opponents act over his human rights abuses

Saudi Arabia announced it would ban all protests and marches.

Libya's second largest city, Benghazi, has fallen to anti-government forces after a crack army unit defected to the opposition and clashes spread to the capital, Tripoli, residents and news reports say.

The son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has appeared on that country's state-owned television to make a statement denouncing the current civil unrest.

Bahrain's Shia Muslims ran in their tens of thousands back into Pearl Square in the centre of Manama.