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Yellowing leaves, collapsing stems and dusty foliage? Your houseplants may be asking for a spruce-up.

Several sunscreens have been found to fail in delivering the sun protection you'd expect. So where to from here?

Samuel Leason and two Palestinian-New Zealanders have met with a consular partner in Tel Aviv, where they are being held by Israeli authorities.

The alleged gunman began randomly firing at passing vehicles, critically wounding a man and hurting several others.

Reports of Valerie on Australia's rugged Kangaroo Island were like sightings of the yeti.

Aurélien Fontenoy took 12 minutes and 30 seconds, smashing the previous record by nearly seven minutes. Video

Unusually heavy snow and rainfall has pummelled the Himalayas.

Hamas has insisted on "no disarmament, keeping Gaza under Palestinian control and tying hostage release to negotiations". Audio

New Zealand actor Will Alexander is among the flotilla trying to bring aid to the residents of Gaza.

A new study suggests a potential new ninth planet in the Earth's solar system.

Police say they have arrested at least 442 people at the London protest "for supporting a proscribed organisation".

There is mounting concern that Russia could be behind a growing number of recent drone incursions in the airspace of Ukraine's European allies.

"They put us on our knees, facing down. And if we moved, they hit us. They were laughing at us, insulting us and hitting us," an Italian regional councillor says.

Unaccompanied minors aged 14 and up are being offered cash to return home, sparking backlash from child advocates.

Activists were "forced to kneel with their hands zip-tied for at least five hours, after some participants chanted 'Free Palestine'," an Israeli legal centre says.