Latest from France

Posturing, power plays as G7 gets underway

As Macron ambushes Trump, Johnson and Tusk trade barbs.

Waiter shot dead because he was 'too slow with sandwich'

The waiter was shot in the shoulder and died at the scene.

Crack cocaine turns Paris neighbourhood into 'hell'

New York Times: Five squalid acres are home to France's largest open-air crack market.

Sunrise hiking up the Dune du Pilat

Melissa Nightingale catches the sunrise from the tallest sand dune in Europe.

Caleb Gilmore grabbing Gixxer opportunities

Wanganui rider Caleb Gilmore grabs one-off deal with New Tech Kawasaki to race in Europe.

To catch a Nazi: How an American lawyer is chasing justice

When McKay Smith started researching WWII, he never expected to find this.

David Cooke: Calling out the politics of exclusion

COMMENT: Legitimising populist racism lays the foundations for worse acts to come.

All Black 'heartbroken' after younger brother drowns

Mum urges All Black to stay with team as they travel to Australia for the Bledisloe Cup.

'Auckland is under siege?': City dwellers startled by fireworks display

Bastille Day fireworks erupted over Auckland Harbour tonight, to many people's surprise.

MH370 pilot in control 'until the end', French investigators suspect

The readouts "lend weight" to suspicions that he crashed into the sea in a murder-suicide.

35 employees committed suicide. Will their bosses go to jail?

New York Times: Company charged with "moral harassment" after wave of suicides.

French motorists to 'lose licences' for driving while on mobile phone

France introduces one of the harshest responses to phone use behind the wheel.

Die Pest! E-scooters invade Europe - and people there hate them too

Washington Post: Europe inundated with e-scooters and riders add the ingredient of beer.

Fake doctor who slaughtered family freed after 26 years behind bars

Times: Liar. Husband. Father. Embezzler. Murderer. Can he be trusted after his release?

The 30 civil servants paid $1.7m a year to do nothing for 25 years

The existence of so many "phantoms" has shocked the nation.

At least three people dead as Europe swelters through heatwave

At least three people have died from suspected heatstroke