Churches should have a 'bouncer' on the door throughout services to improve security an expert warns small parish churches are more at risk of attack.

Watch NZH Focus: Could Aliens have sent a ‘strong message’ from deep in space, scientists are investigating a signal from a star around 94 light years from Earth. The European Commission orders Apple to pay 20 billion dollars in back taxes in Ireland. And a 7 year old girl finds an 1992 Olympic gold medal in a pile of rubbish in Atlanta.

Watch NZH Focus: About 170 team members of our Olympic team have touched down at Auckland airport this morning. Russia loses its appeal against a ban from next month's Rio Paralympics because of a state-sponsored doping program And a fisherman in the Philippines finds a giant pearl worth as much as 136 million dollars and keeps it under his bed for 10 years.

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Watch NZH Focus: Triple Olympic medalist Lisa Carrington will carry the flag for the New Zealand team at the Rio Olympics closing ceremony. And the suicide bomber who killed 51 people at a wedding in Turkey was a child between 12 and 14 years old, thats according to President Tayyip Erdogan.

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump repeatedly suggested that there were links between President Barack Obama and the organisation Isis (Islamic State).

The principal railway station for Disneyland Paris was evacuated after a 'suspicious package' was found inside.

Isis terrorists have called for attacks at the Miss World competition due to be held in the Philippines in January.

A leaked executive memo from the New Zealand Defence Force warns a terror attack on home soil is "not a matter of if, but when".

Liberals and non-believers, Islamic State don't like you very much.

Watch NZH Focus: President Barack Obama attacks Donald Trump saying he’s entirely unfit to serve as president. Thousands attend the funeral of French priest Father Jacques Hamel, who was murdered in his church by Islamist extremists.

10 new cases of Zika in Florida prompt health officials to advise pregnant women to avoid an area just north of downtown Miami. A Russian military helicopter is shot down in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province killing all five people on board. More than 1,000 migrants are rescued off the coast of Libya by the Italian coastguard.

COMMENT: Ghazala Khan's son, US Army Captain Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq in 2004. This is her response to Donald Trump.

Watch NZH Focus: The father of a slain Muslim American soldier has described Donald Trump as having a 'black soul'.

Watch NZH Focus: Donald Trump's coming under renewed attack, from the family of a Muslim US soldier who was killed in Iraq. A memorial service has been held at Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral for the elderly priest who was murdered on his altar in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray last Tuesday. Poland's Catholic faithful have bid farewell to Pope Francis as the pontiff concluded his five-day visit to the country

Geneva's airport was placed in lockdown yesterday after a jilted wife phoned in a false bomb threat to try to stop her husband leaving from the airport.

Watch NZH Focus: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pledged to do "everything humanly possible" to keep Germany safe following a string of attacks including two carried out by asylum-seekers. At least 77 people have died and several are missing in floods and landslides in Nepal. Donald Trump now he says he was joking when he ¬challenged Russia to hack into her emails

Isis' war on Europe seems to have entered a dangerous new phase.

Britain's intelligence agencies have said a terrorist attack in the UK is "highly likely" following attacks in other parts of Europe.

Watch NZH focus: A 84-year-old priest in northern France has been killed and four other people were taken hostage by two armed men who stormed his church. A Kiwi has smashed the world sheep shearing record in England, Matt Smith, averaged 81 sheep an hour. And Pokemon takes India by storm.

One of the Isis knifemen who stormed a church in Normandy before slitting the throat of an elderly priest has been named as known terror threat.

Donald Trump says France and Germany have "totally" been compromised by terrorism and their citizens should receive "extreme vetting" before entering the US.

The IOC will not ban the entire Russian Olympic team from the Rio games. The Australian team are not moving into the Olympic Village because of "blocked toilets, leaking pipes and exposed wiring”. And shocking footage is released of the moment a woman was mauled to death by a tiger at a safari park in Beijing.

As unrest rises, travel agents here are receiving more questions from travellers about which areas are safe to visit.

Teen killer in Munich targeted children in his rampage. Police say he shot himself after killing at least nine and injuring at least 20.

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Police in Brazil arrest 10 people on suspicion of belonging to a group supporting Islamic State and preparing acts of terrorism during next month's Olympics in Rio Also Russia has lost its appeal against the ban on 68 track and field athletes from competing in the Olympics. And Joseph Parker's victory over Solomon Haumono in Christchurch ended in controversy after the Australian's camp filed an official protest

COMMENT: There is no doubt that Isis is barbaric, but so are the military responses of the West that contributed to its creation in the first place.

The US Vice President is expected to confirm the United States Navy will send a ship to New Zealand this year, ending a 33-year absence from our ports because of the anti-nuclear rift. A speechwriter for the Trump campaign has taken the blame for copying parts of 2008 Michelle Obama speech and including it in Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention. The new British PM, Theresa May is in Berlin for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel. President Joe Biden says New Zealand and America have a vested interest in the Pacific.

Hundreds, if not thousands, have endured invisible scars that could take a long time to heal, if they ever do, say psychologists and victims.

The Saudi government still says it had no connection to the hijackers. Newly released classified information proves otherwise.