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Consultant clinical virologist Dr Chris Smith returns to answer questions about the emerging science around the novel coronavirus pandemic. This week, the WHO suspends clinical trials of… Audio

Decades of neglect has left the US in a state of disrepair and it is now too poor to halt economic and social decline, economic commentator Umair Haque says. Audio

What does the deteriorating state of the US's relationship with China mean for the two countries, and for the rest of the world? Could the added stress of the Covid-19 pandemic tip an already fragile… Audio

Professor Elizabeth Loftus is an authority on the power and limitations of human memory - but her ideas about the accuracy of our memories and the shortcomings of eyewitness evidence have proved… Audio

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the Government will look at moving to Alert Level 1 next week.

Ardern says they will bring forward Cabinet's discussion of moving levels to next Monday.

It was due… Audio

In 1970 Penguin Books Australia took a radical decision which upturned over seventy years worth of censorship legislation. Audio

UK correspondent Hugo Gye joins Kathryn to talk about how the UK is moving more slowly than other European nations to lift Covid restrictions, even as it continues to record nearly 2000 new cases of… Audio

New research into a free social initiative helping ex prisoners get their drivers licences has found that half have found either fulltime or part-time jobs. Audio

From today, commercial tenants with 20 or fewer employees will be able to access partially funded compulsory arbitration if their landlord won't negotiate a fair rent. Audio

First there was 'quake brain', now there might be 'Covid brain'.

Researchers found people who experienced trauma - like the Christchurch quake - had significantly poorer visual memory than others who… Audio

Queenstown's new welfare hub opens its doors to the community today.

Thousands of people have sought welfare in the resort town as job losses pile up.

Reporter Tess Brunton is in Queenstown and… Audio

As we reported earlier this week, Labour's Māori electorate MPs are returning to the party list this year after a bold play in 2017 saw them sweep all seven seats.

Last election's decision to stay… Audio

English language schools are warning their 500-million-dollar-a-year industry is in a critical state because of dwindling student numbers.

School managers say they cannot wait until next year for the… Audio

Whisking a child abroad, away from one of its parents, looks set to be treated differently by the courts from now on.

The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a mother who argued that forcing her… Audio