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A spot at the World Cup in the United Arab Emirates is up for grabs when the Oceania Under 17 football championship kicks off in Vanuatu on Wednesday. Defending champions...

Prices paid for shares in Sky Network Television have fallen nearly 3% following the completion of the sale of News Corporation's stake in the pay-to-view operator.

A man who desperately tried to free a woman whose wheelchair was stuck on a rail track in Auckland says she was dragged along the tracks by the train after it struck her. Audio

Scientists are to analyse fragments that survived as a meteor burned up in the skies above Russia's Ural Mountains.

A popular national sandcastlecompetition at New Brighton in Christchurch on Saturday will be limited to local competitors due to a lack of money.

Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler has expressed disquiet over rising house prices.

Grey Power is calling on the Auckland Council to retain a transport subsidy during peak time travel.

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has declared a state of emergency in the cities of Port Said, Suez and Ismalia after days of deadly unrest.

Radio New Zealand's political diary sets out the schedule of political events, speeches, debates, select committee hearing and other parliamentary business expected in the week beginning Monday, 28…

Dramatic rescues have been carried out in central Queensland, with parts of Rockhampton underwater after its wettest day in more than 60 years.

The Dow and Nasdaq edged higher on Wednesday, after profits by IBM and Google helped to soothe concerns about the tech sector.

Australian athletes have won the men's and women's titles at the Ironman 70.3 race in Auckland on Sunday.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is touring the scene of the Coonabarabran bushfire in northwest New South Wales on Thursday.

Four tourists have had a lucky escape after campervans they were sleeping in were swept down a Nelson river during a heavy downpour. Audio

Authorities face days of cleaning up roads and walking tracks in the wake of the wild weather in New Zealand over the past several days.

Dozens of flights in and out of Wellington airport were cancelled from Sunday afternoon due to low fog, disrupting hundreds of passengers days before Christmas.

A woman who lost her son in a school massacre last week in Connecticut has responded to a call by the National Rifle Association for armed guards in schools. Veroni Pozner said she is insulted by the…

The mother and uncle of a three-year old boy named Jihad have appeared in a French court for sending him to school in a top with the words "I am a bomb" written on it.

Some details were issued on Saturday about the killings at Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six adults were shot on Friday morning. All were shot more than once.

In the aftermath of the Connecticut mass school shootings, a number of politicians, including President Barack Obama, called for action to prevent similar episodes in the future.

A man has been arrested in Britain over the death of former New Zealand punk rock singer Steve Andrews. Audio

New restrictions come into affect on Saturday in Christchurch that will affect dog owners when they take their pets to the beach.

Bread company Goodman Fielder says it is on course to make $100 million in annualised savings by 2015.