Weighty matters are at stake this election, and then there are the issues that Karyn Scherer asked a few well-known people to ponder

Runaway soldier Tevita Mara says he has no interest in being another military leader, but he wants the opportunity to tell the NZ Government the "reality of the situation on the ground in Fiji."

Foreign Affairs officials will meet with Tevita Mara - who ran away from Fiji to avoid sedition charges - when he arrives in NZ. He is currently in Australia to address pro-democracy groups.

Leaders of the 'real' and 'virtual' worlds will meet, en masse, for the first time in northern France today.

Could this year's G8 summit, in the French seaside resort of Deauville, break with tradition?

The family of a slain South African photojournalist is still coming to terms with his death.