Science writer Henry Gee paints a less horrific but equally worrying picture of humanity’s future in his book The Decline and ...

As a war drama, The Narrow Road to the Deep North is almost entirely static. The combat the battalion engages in is eclipsed ...

Russia's defence ministry is claiming Ukraine has broken President Vladimir Putin's "Easter truce" more than a thousand times, Russian news agencies reported. Mr Putin announced a surprise one-day ...

Pope Francis has made a brief appearance at St Peter's Square to bless the thousands gathered for Easter Sunday. The pope, who is still recovering from a near-fatal bout of double pneumonia, drew ...

Mayor Wayne Brown says Auckland Emergency Management, partner agencies and contractors will continue to respond quickly to unfolding events. The council's completed 16 rapid building assessments, and ...

It's that of the man who fell into the water near Wairere Falls yesterday. The death's been referred to the Coroner.

Storms have been detected in north-west Auckland. They're moving in a southeast direction and are expected to bring heavy rain. MetService is also watching out for storms in Northland and Waikato.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday, becoming one of the oldest serving American astronauts. Pettit landed back on Earth in Kazakhstan on Saturday at around 9.20pm ...

Only 43 (to date) have been observed directly (about 0.5% of them). Most are discovered through indirect means, such as radial velocity or the transit method. The transit method is where you look at ...

He's carded a third-round one-over par 73 to move into a share of 61st at two-under overall. That's 15 shots behind American leader Joel Dahmen , who's at 17-under.

It's level at 16-all at half-time between the Gold Coast Titans and Canberra Raiders in league's NRL. Back-to-back bogeys has seen golfer Kazuma Kobori slip to four-under par in a tie for 23rd at the ...

Sir Lockwood says just as New Zealand needs to be able to access markets globally, so too does the UK, and both are working on Free Trade Agreements with India.