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Papua New Guinean parliamentarians have raised the prospect of delaying the June 2012 elections, with the government questioning figures in the electoral commissioner's report. Tabled in parliament on…

Slovaks are in favour of naming a new border bridge near the capital, Bratislava, after 1980s TV star Chuck Norris. The actor's work is popular there.

Kevin Rudd says he will stand against Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard in a leadership ballot next week.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard looks to have the numbers in the Australian Labor Party caucus - but opinion polls tell a different story, pitting Kevin Rudd as the much preferred leader. Audio

Elections have been taking place in Yemen for a new president to replace Ali Abdullah Saleh, who held power for 33 years. Vice president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi is the only candidate.

The Egyptian authorities have failed to agree on a date for the first presidential election of the post-Mubarak era.

The latest 3 News Reid Research poll still has National with a commanding lead over Labour.

The Government estimates visitors to Waka Maori contributed $9 million to the Auckland economy during the Rugby World Cup. The $1.9 million publicly-funded, land-based plastic canoe featured on the…

The United Nations has stressed the Needs Assessment Mission team being sent to Fiji ahead of the planned 2014 elections will be politically neutral and unbiased. Fiji's ambassador to the...

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has officially confirmed he will seek a second term in the presidential election scheduled for April and May.

Pakistan is extending the right to vote in general elections to overseas nationals.

A survey with a low number of respondents and high margin of error, showing that Rugby World Cup visitors spent up to $340 million last year, has been criticised as not credible.

Motives behind Fiji's latest decree are being questioned by members of the legal profession. The interim government says the State Proceedings Amendment Decree will restore a level playing field…

Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney has scored a narrow win in Maine's caucuses.

Preliminary results in the Christchurch City Council by-election, show that the former dean of Christ Church Cathedral Peter Beck is set to become the city's newest councillor.

The Fiji Labour Party leader says the latest anti-defamation decree brings the country closer to being a banana republic. Mahendra Chaudhry says the State Proceedings Amendment Decree is a…

Prime Minister John Key says a possible breach of the law, following his appearance on Radio Live is a matter for the broadcaster. Audio

The leader of Fiji's Labour Party says the new decree preventing people from suing those in power for defamation is ridiculous. Mahendra Chaudhry says the new State Proceedings Amendment Decree...

A member of the Pacific media watchdog, Pacific Freedom Forum, says journalists in Fiji are raising questions about how they can provide balanced reporting under the regime's new decree. The...

Wednesday's headlines: Southern Steel netball franchise begging Netball NZ for financial assistance; harassment reported by woman who bottle-feeds her son; voting slow in Burwood-Pegasus byelection.

Mitt Romney has won Nevada's Republican caucuses, early results from the western US state suggest.

The very thought of Sachin Tendulkar and his contemporaries being shown the exit door would have been dismissed a year ago, but the majority of Indian cricket fans are now...

Papua New Guinea's rival attorney general says the Somare camp is unlikely to attend parliament to vote to hold an early election. The Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, says he will...

Papua New Guinea's rival attorney general says the Somare camp is unlikely to attend parliament to vote to hold an early election. The Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, says he will...