Today: Donald Trump reaches the number of delegates he needed to secure the party's presidential nomination for the White House and a 31-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Christchurch sex worker Renee Duckmanton. And US President Barack Obama meets with his G7 counterparts in Japan and pushes to finish negotiations on Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership before the end of the year.
Today: Eric McIsaac has pleaded guilty in the high court in Palmerston North to killing his half-brother Alex Fisher and Parramatta league star Corey Norman has been charged with drug offences. And the trailer for Pixar's new film Finding Dory the follow-up to Finding Nemo.
Today - Shocking pictures of the moment a boat capsizes tipping hundreds of migrants into the sea off the Libyan coast and homeless people could be offered up to $5000 to relocate out of Auckland. Also a set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare's plays sells for $3700000.
An underground water main break along Florence's picturesque Arno River has created a 200-metre-long sinkhole that buried dozens of parked cars. Source: Youtube / News Today
Jennifer Dumas sits on a sofa, her smiling 6-month-old girl on her lap. The room is full of bright toys and children's books. A rainbow-colored activity mat is on the floor, and Winnie the Pooh is painted on the walls. It looks like any other nursery, except that there are bars on the windows and barbed-wire fences outside the austere brick building.
Tornadoes touch down in Dodge City, Kansas causing early reports of damage, Konrad Hurrell has been released from his contract with the Warriors and Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett says homeless people could be offered up to $5000 to leave Auckland.
Source: KHOU The final moments of Houston 11 year old Josue Flores' life before he was stabbed walking home from school.
Today - Comedian Bill Cosby is ordered to stand trial on sexual assault charges and about 140 people are living without basic shelter in Tauranga. Also a new pay deal for New Zealand Rugby that could keep many players from moving overseas.
For the first time on record, living with parents is now the most common arrangement for people ages 18 to 34, an analysis of census data by the Pew Research Center has found.
President Barack Obama dined in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Monday with chef and TV personality Anthony Bourdain, whose "Parts Unknown" food travelogue is one of the CNN's most popular nonfiction series.
The Chinese government rejected U.S. claims that it is censoring access to the internet. Meanwhile, Google may make good on a threat to close its China-based portal.
Source: Youtube / Jill Thompson
As many as 70 percent of people infected with HIV in the United States do not have the virus under control, boosting the risk of transmission, according to a study. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the vast majority of 1.2 million infected people either were no longer in care or were not taking medication regularly in 2011.
Today: Actor and comedian Bill Cosby to trial on a sexual assault charge and there's a rise in the use of dodgy imported building materials into NZ. Also more rain, squalls, strong winds, thunderstorms and even coastal tornadoes today as another front makes its way across the country.
This afternoon on NZ Herald focus we talk to Record breaking New Zealand freediver William Trubridge about his plea to McDonalds and we look at which New Zealand city is listed as one of the most expensive places to buy a drink.
Six people are in hospital and one may have died after a petrol tanker rolled, crushing a car and starting a chain of collisions on a Melbourne motorway. Most of the six have neck, shoulder and facial injuries and are in a stable condition in hospital following the smash this morning on the Calder Freeway in Keilor East.
Today: Two teens who beat a man to death in a Auckland motel will spend at least a decade behind bars. And will Blenheim become Marlborough City? Also Franko Heke sets a record for a New Zealand artist by performing in front of almost four million people in India
One of the world's rarest cats -- a Lykoi or 'werewolf cat' -- has been found in public gardens in the centre of Cape Town. The partially hairless animal, name Eyona, is one of only 35 such animals recorded with the natural mutation around the world since 2011, according to animal rescue group Tears.
Actor/comedian Bill Cosby is due in court Tuesday morning for a hearing that will determine whether he will go to trial in the sexual assault case brought by Andrea Constand.
This man-made lake atop a Czech mountain is used to produce electricity. The hydroelectric plant underneath can go quickly into action by rushing the water into its turbines. When there is surplus of electricity in the grid, the plant uses that power to pump the water back up the hill and into the reservoir.
The parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann appeared in court in Lisbon to deliver personal statements in their libel case against former police chief inspector Goncalo Amaral.
The Austrian government confirms that green-backed candidate Alexander van der Bellen has narrowly beat his far-right rival Norbert Hofer to the presidency after postal votes broke a tie in the closely watched race.
Seventeen young girls died and several others were injured when a fire swept through the dormitory of a school for children of hill tribes in northern Thailand, officials say.
Watch NZH focus - A mammoth rescue mission has saved all 38 people who were "buried in snow". And Golden State forward Draymond Green could be banned after kicking New Zealand's Steven Adams in the groin.
The latest rescue attempts for the group of 4WD adventurers stuck in their vehicles in heavy snow since yesterday and Jimmy Kimmel reunites the stars of Breaking Bad with a ‘My Sweet 60th’ birthday party for Bryan Cranston.
Thanks to a Chewbacca mask and an infectious laugh, a woman has become an internet hit after she filmed herself trying on a Star Wars mask. Source: Facebook / Candace Payne
Following Joseph Parker's big win over the weekend, fight fans are now squaring up for a showdown with event organisers and supplies are running low for 36 people who are trapped in remote Central Otago after a snow storm.
An al-Qaida-inspired extremist was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday for hacking an off-duty British soldier to death on a London street in front of horrified passers-by. His accomplice received a minimum 45 year sentence.
Scientists are travelling back more than 60 million years in history to drill deep under the ocean floor in search of clues about the event that wiped out the dinosaurs, and nearly extinguished life on earth. Source: Smithsonian Channel
The Malaysian student who splurged nearly $5million in less than a year after mistakenly receiving an unlimited overdraft says she thought the money came from her parents. Source: 9
When Australian Airdre Mattner was drugged and raped while on holiday, she had no idea her ordeal had only just begun. Source: 9