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An Egyptian TV presenter has been sentenced to one year of hard labour for interviewing a gay man last year.

The number of fines handed out for illegal dumping in Auckland has doubled in the past 12 months.

The Security Intelligence Service has apologised to former Green MP Keith Locke for describing him as a "threat" in an internal document.

Robert Lloyd Schellenberg faces a death sentence for drug smuggling, worsening the Canada-China relationship weeks after the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou.

A man has been fined in Taiwan for sending a cat that he no longer wanted via an express postal service.

PNG's Deputy Prime Minister has proposed a joint PNG-Australia coastguard policing initiative to curb sea piracy and drug and arms smuggling.

England rugby players are more likely to get injured under coach Eddie Jones.

Democrats moved swiftly to condemn US President Donald Trump's televised address on border security, accusing him of stoking fear and holding the country hostage.

A search is underway in Fiji for a missing boat with seven people on board.

Analysis - Government departments snooping on NZers, a referendum on legalising cannabis and why Karel Sroubek will be deported. Peter Wilson looks at the week in politics.

The Chinese Embassy in NZ is disputing allegations made by Uyghurs living here that many of their friends and families are disappearing from their homeland back in China's Xinjiang region.

Traps have been laid and a specialised detector dog deployed to find out if there are any other stink bugs.

Former National Party ministers are being forced to defend the activities of private investigators under their watch, saying they didn't know about any unethical activity.

Some wards at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital have been declared a transmission risk area after a superbug was found in two patients there.

A report into the use of external security consultants is set to cause a shake-up within the public service. Emma Hatton explains the background to the issues that have been raised so far.

A Taranaki iwi says the State Services Commission report reflects the iwi's experience that government agencies were biased against it. Audio

The investigation into private security firms doing public sector work shows the firms have had largely unfettered access to the motor vehicle register for years. Video, Audio

Environmental groups say there needs to be a complete overhaul of the way government departments treat activists after a scathing report by the States Services Commission on spying. Audio

The Southern Response chair Ross Butler has resigned following a damning report that found a private security firm acting on the crown agency's behalf made potentially illegal recordings of quake…

The State Services Commission investigation into the use of external security companies reveals disturbing and unethical behaviour, says the Prime Minister. Audio

A review of the law which governs how DNA is used in criminal investigations has raised the possibility of a databank which would hold every New Zealander's DNA.