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Analysis - Auckland's new mayor and council will be named today after a low-turnout election and, writes Todd Niall, the region's voting patterns make the winner's margin hard to call.

Analysis - Wellington has a reputation politics, but as Dean Bedford writes, this year's mayoral election has failed fire up.

The United Nations Security Council has unanimously nominated Antonio Guterres to be the next UN secretary-general.

Children as young as nine, afraid of missing out, check their cellphones day and night, research in Britain has found.

Opinion - The US Republican candidate retains a solid core of supporters regardless of what he says or does. Phil Smith looks at who these people are.

Helen Clark has congratulated Portugal's Antonio Guterres as the "clear winner" in the selection for next United Nations Secretary-General. Audio

Analysis: The race for the job of head of the United Nations is heating up overnight. Kim Griggs explains the world's weirdest job selection for the world's top diplomatic job.

Democrat Tim Kaine tried to make the only vice-presidential debate all about Donald Trump on Tuesday, calling him a danger to US national security.

Hillary Clinton has attacked Donald Trump as the symbol of a "rigged system" after it emerged that he may not have paid income tax for 18 years.

The election office in American Samoa is reminding voters that next Monday is the deadling to submit request for local absentee voting.

Colombians have narrowly rejected a peace deal with Marxist insurgents to end the country's 52-year civil war.

Power Play- Don Brash's back with a reheated take on his Iwi-vs-Kiwi rhetoric. Chris Bramwell looks back at his many incarnations.

People in Hungary are voting in a referendum on accepting mandatory EU quotas for relocating migrants.

Helen Clark's chances of becoming United Nations Secretary-General are now almost nothing after Bulgaria announced a new candidate, an analyst says. Audio

Jason Taumalolo and Cooper Cronk have tied to win the Dally M Medal, each recording 26 points during the National Rugby League season.

The first US presidential debate was watched by 84 million, breaking the record set by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan in 1980.

Labour and the Greens have been labelled hypocrites as they look to collaborate a Mt Roskill by-election, which will be triggered should Phil Goff be elected Auckland's mayor.

Donald Trump has criticised the moderator in the first US presidential debate for being tougher on him than on Hillary Clinton and complained about his microphone crackling.

Opinion - The first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was full of sound and fury but, Phil Smith asks, what did it signify?

Arguments over temperament and character took centre stage in the first US presidential candidate debate. Video