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ACT will go into the election campaign as the only parliamentary party without a sitting MP seeking re-election. Audio

Saudi Arabia is to give women the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, the only public polls in the kingdom.

The opposition candidate in the Zambian presidential elections, Michael Sata of the Patriotic Front, has been declared the winner, beating the governing party which has spent 20 years in power.

The Fiji interim government has briefed diplomats in Suva on its preparations for planned elections in three years. The interim Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, and the Solicitor General…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives face another drubbing in a regional election on Sunday that is expected to weaken her hand ahead of a crucial euro zone vote in parliament in two weeks.

United States President Barack Obama is to propose a minimum tax on people making more than $US1 million per year as part of his recommendations for cutting the deficit. It's being called the "Buffett…

A pro-Russia party won the most votes in a snap general election in Latvia on Saturday, but fell short of an absolute majority. Other parties are likely to form a coalition to keep it out of the…

The Newcastle and New South Wales winger Akuila Uate has been voted Player of the Year by his rugby league peers. The Fijian-born flyer out-polled the likes of Paul Gallen,...

Election officials in Tonga are expecting an 80 percent voter turnout in a by-election to choose a new Tongatapu 9 People's Representative to parliament. Nine polling stations will be available...

A leading civil society group in Fiji says if the interim regime is so confident of Fiji people's support, it should lift the Public Emergency Regulations. Reverend Akuila Yabaki of...

A group of people who have lost loved-ones to suicide says it is a major election issue.

The job approval rating for US president Barack Obama is at the lowest level since he took office.

An opinon poll says Fiji's interim Prime Minister, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, has an approval rating of more than two thirds. The poll by the Australian think tank, the Lowy institute,...

The Fiji interim government says voter registration will start from early next year for polls in 2014. The interim Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says an advertisement in the Fiji Sun...

The National Party has announced its list of candidates for the November general election. Audio

The latest political opinion poll by Fairfax Media-Research International makes grim reading for the Labour Party, placing it a distant second on 25.7%.

Wednesday's headlines: rise in flu and respiratory illnesses hits hospitals in Auckland; poll support for Labour at 25.7%; ''affordable'' housing policy has cost Queenstown Lakes District Council…

Phil Goff says he will lead the Labour Party into the election and anyone suggesting otherwise is flogging a dead horse. Audio

For the first time in nearly 20 years, people in Singapore are voting to choose their next president.

The Maori Party say it's not fazed by criticism by Tai Tokerau MP Hone Harawira which the caucus says is just 'Hone being Hone'.

Youngsters in Britain are ditching Dickens, Shakespeare and Keats for Facebook and Twitter. Less than half read a book outside of class.

Papua New Guinea received just 7 per cent of votes from a poll asking readers which teams should be included in a possible new NRL expansion in 2013 or beyond.