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New Zealand is about to increase the pressure on the United States to open up access for this country's exports to its highly protected dairy markets.

At least nine people have died after being trapped inside burning vehicles when a highway tunnel collapsed in Japan, crushing cars and triggering a blaze.

Every year the Rory Peck Awards pay tribute to freelance journalists and camera operators who risk their livesin difficult and dangerous places. A documentary on a war in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan…

Environmental lobby Forest & Bird says a new species of cave weta found on the West Coast's Denniston Plateau is another piece of unique ecology which could be lost if an open-cast coal mine is built…

The people of Ngati Hikairo in Waikato have warmly welcomed home two ancestral heads that have been held at Stanford University in San Francisco since 1952.

A research paper has found that the use of social media in the Pacific has grown exponentially in the past few years and has the potential to significantly influence the...

More ancestral remains are being brought back to Aotearoa from the United States and Canada.

An 82-year-old man who failed to return from a caving expedition near Punakaiki on the West Coast has been found and taken to hospital.

The West Indies have beaten Bangladesh by 77 runs in the first cricket test in Dhaka. The home side caved in under pressure and were all out for 167 runs...

Rain once again dominated play last night as the Black Caps had any hope of notching their first win in Sri Lanka dashed despite dominating with the ball. Sri Lanka...

A North Otago council says it may put a controversial subdivision in Oamaru on hold despite winning parliamentary approval.

At least five people are dead and three are still missing after the roof of a supermarket collapsed in Argentina.

The Cook Islands says it has attracted 70 foreign tourism wholesalers for its annual industry forum, called Kia Orana Cook Islands. The event will run in the first week of...

An American woman injured in a car crash in Waikato has not been told that her husband died in the accident.

Floods caused by days of rain in south-west France have forced the closure of most of Lourdes and the evacuation of more than 450 pilgrims. The flooding is the worst in 25 years.

An American woman injured in a car crash near Waitomo Caves last month, in which her husband was killed, has been transferred from intensive care to a new high dependence unit at Waikato hospital.

A Gisborne farming leader says the extra money the Government is promising for road improvements to compensate for the loss of the Napier to Gisborne railway line, won't be enough.

The parents of a US woman injured in a car crash in Waikato that killed her husband have thanked New Zealanders for their help and support.

An American tourist visiting New Zealand on his honeymoon has died in a car crash near the Waitomo Caves, in Waikato.

Federated Farmers is challenging the Government to increase road funding for the Gisborne region in light of the plan to keep the railway line closed.