Features

From busking in Christchurch's Cashel Mall to four number-one albums, James Reid and Hamish Gee from The Feelers reflect on 25 years as one of New Zealand's most successful bands. Video, Audio

FIFA World Cup - After 56 matches and 144 goals, just eight teams remain at the World Cup. Coen Lammers looks ahead to the quarter-finals and beyond.

The Compact of Free Association and the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) are legally compatible, according to a Harvard Law School review issued this week.

France's court of revision has reconsidered the 1959 conviction of the late French Polynesian politician, Pouvanaa a Oopa.

David Long writes music for robots, Claire Cowan evokes a controversial exotic dancer of the 1930's, and Gustav Holst gives us a planetary tour. All in one concert from Orchestra Wellington conducted by Marc Taddei.

Opinion - Last weekend, tens of thousands protested against the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, but detention of children has been happening in our backyard for years.

The rollout for the recent G.O.O.D Music albums from Pusha T, Kanye West and Nas have been negative for black women, U.S journalist David Dennis Jr says. Audio

As Pacific countries grapple with an obesity crisis through taxes and regulation, global giants are pushing back, keen to compensate for falling sales of sell sugary drinks in the west.

At The Movies: Sicario: Day of the Soldado puts the Benicio del Toro character firmly in the foreground this time. Also starring Josh Brolin and Catherine Keener. Video, Audio

A Māori and Pacifica youth community choir bring their goosebump-inducing harmonies to a new version of Marlon Williams' 'Make Way For Love'. 

Our Changing World - Researchers at Scion hope that thousands of tiny kauri seedlings might include some that are resistant to kauri dieback disease. Audio

A Māori and Pacifica youth community choir bring their goosebump inducing harmonies to a new version of Marlon Williams' 'Make Way For Love'. 

Emily Welch is one of New Zealand's first and most successful female shearers and is one of the main focuses of She Shears, an upcoming NZ female shearer documentary.  Audio

Joan Wasser goes by the stage-name Joan As Police Woman, and she writes some fairly arresting music. William Dart finds no point resisting, and goes along quietly with her new album Damned Devotion. Video, Audio

Stu is a gentle soul who lives with dozens of pigs on his family’s old Coromandel farm, but it’s not easy: the farm is in the middle of pig hunting territory.

Swedish science journalist Torill Kornfeldt has travelled the real world to meet some of the people working on bringing extinct fauna back to life, including dinosaurs and woolly mammoths. Audio, Gallery

In Ōtara, South Auckland, they've been experimenting with new ways of providing to those in need. RNZ's John Campbell and Claire Eastham-Farrelly went along and saw that it has been an extraordinary success. Video, Audio, Gallery

Opinion: For all it does to captivate, it's time the beautiful game started living up to that moniker, writes Clay Wilson. Video

Discovered by a German doctor doing experiments with rooster testicles in his backyard, hormones are essential to all of us and dictate hunger, metabolism, sleep and immune systems, Dr Randi Epstein says. Audio

A woman from Papua New Guinea's East New Britain province says rampant logging on local land has devastated her community's lifestyle. Audio

An environmental campaigner in Vanuatu has set her sights on a new target now the once ubiquitous plastic bag is a thing of the past in her country. Audio

Opinion - The Titanic is sinking: house prices have risen exponentially, incomes have not. Can Phil Twyford and the Labour-led government's KiwiBuild rescue New Zealanders from this disaster?

From busking in Christchurch's Cashel Mall to four number-one albums, James Reid and Hamish Gee from The Feelers reflect on 25 years as one of New Zealand's most successful bands. Video, Audio

Cello lovers can feast their ears here with RNZ Concert's new collection of concertos, sonatas, variations and encores.