BRINGING CHANGE: The pope has called a synod in October to discuss a range of family issues, including contraception, marriage and divorce.Reuters What Pope Francis may tell Catholics in private ...

A former SPCA general manager has lost his claim over wrongful redundancy but has been awarded $500 after the Employment Relations Authority found a written warning was "unfair and unjustified".

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers his speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore on Saturday.AP China denounced US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth for calling the Asian country ...

A building designed to uphold law and order is on the market, instead offering its new owners comfort and style. The former Thames Police Station was designed in 1909 by John Campbell, one of New ...

It might be a bitter pill to swallow for some, but All Blacks great Grant Fox says rugby is "just a game". "There are far more important things happening in the country and the world," he told ...

The power of support: John and Mary Brasell with chaplain Barbara Walker. John Brasell does not consider himself a particularly religious man. But the 76-year-old grandfather of five could not ...

A former Te Atiawa treaty claims negotiator has urged the incoming coalition government to pass the controversial Waitara Lands Bill "unencumbered". Peter Moeahu has petitioned newly appointed ...

The family of Elisabeth Nicholls, who went missing in the Christchurch suburb of Riccarton last week, are making a further appeal for assistance from the public after no breakthroughs in the search ...

At least 11 people are dead and more than 30 injured after a stampede as crowds tried to enter a cricket stadium in southern India’s Karnataka state, authorities said. The crush happened on ...

Max Verstappen said that frustration caused “a move that was not right and shouldn’t have happened”, a day after he initially seemed unrepentant over his collision with George Russell at ...

The Tates were arrested in Romania in late 2022 and formally indicted last year on charges that they participated in a criminal ring there that lured women who were allegedly sexually exploited.AP ...