Pacific
Japan wants action on sea clash
JAPAN is asking the Netherlands to take "practical measures" against a Sea Shepherd vessel after claiming it rammed one of their whaling ships.
Skydiver on mend after 12,000ft fall
A SKYDIVER who plunged 12,000 feet before smashing into a van at nearly 65 km/h says he expects his infant son will be walking before him.
Drunk woman bit flight attendant
A NEW Zealand woman who bit an Air New Zealand flight attendant and kicked another in the testicles has been ordered into alcohol counselling.
Kiwis may vote on changing flag
NEW Zealand may hold a referendum this year on ditching its flag in favour of one displaying a silver fern. Should Australia follow suit?
Man fights off shark, stitches himself
A NEW Zealand doctor has fought off a shark, stitched his own leg and found time for a beer at the pub before going to hospital.
Boy dies after sand hole collapses
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy has died at a New Zealand beach after a hole in the sand collapsed on him and suffocated him.
PNG opposition leader arrest order
ORDERS have been issued for the arrest of Papua New Guinea's opposition leader amid allegations he threatened the police commissioner.
One dead after cyclone in Tonga
UPDATE: One person is confirmed dead after Cyclone Ian ripped through the Pacific Island nation.
Boy, 9, drunk at skate park
POLICE and family services are investigating shocking footage of a nine-year-old boy who appears drunk at a skate park. WATCH VIDEO
Sorry James Cook, you weren't first
NEW research suggests another European ship explored New Zealand after Abel Tasman but before James Cook - and its crew suffered a grisly end.
Brawl may be payback for teen attack
NZ police believe a Christchurch brawl involving teens wielding knives, chains and a steel bar was retaliation for an attack on a teen schoolgirl on the weekend.
Aussie baby injured in van crash
A SIX-month-old Australian boy left fighting for his life after being thrown from a van in a holiday crash that left eight people injured is now in a serious but stable condition.
Passengers rescued from trapped ship
UPDATE: ALL 52 passengers have been airlifted from an icebound vessel in Antarctica and are safe on board an Australian supply ship.
Aussie icebreaker ship the last hope
STRANDED passengers onboard a ship wedged in Antarctic sea ice are hours away from knowing if a second rescue attempt will fail like the first one.
New clues reveal ancient explorers
A WRECK in New Zealand has been dated to some 70 years before Captain Cook. It is just the latest find showing seafarers explored our great southern lands - but never returned.
'We are destroying children's lives'
GREENS Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is raising concern about the conditions that children and families are experiencing while in detention on Nauru.
Bad luck, NZ: the kiwi's an Aussie
NEW Zealanders, prepare to be sick to your All-Black-loving, Australian-envying stomachs: your beloved kiwi is a descendant of our wide brown land.
Kids raped as 'bullets rained down'
INDONESIAN security forces intentionally killed and raped children and a large number of civilians at a West Papuan massacre, a tribunal has found.
No happy ending for NZ man and 'Katie'
A NEW Zealand man who begged the internet to help him find a mystery woman "Katie" may have found her - but it seems she's not impressed.
NZ PM 'unidentified' on world stage
SPARE a thought for New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, or as he is known in the rest of the world, the "unidentified guest".
Anger as Pike River charges dropped
FAMILIES of 29 miners killed in an explosion at New Zealand's Pike River Coal mine are angry over news charges against from boss Peter Whittall have been dropped.
Magnitude 5 quake near Fukushima
A MAGNITUDE 5.1 earthquake has been registered near the damaged Fukushima nuclear facility
Kiwi wants help to find mystery girl
A NEW Zealand man is hoping internet sleuths can help him find a girl he met in Hong Kong last New Year's Eve with a number of clues she left him.
Have you already forgotten Haiyan?
PICTURES: Four weeks after Typhoon Haiyan, the world has moved on. But how are the survivors coping with life after their apocalypse?
Mice in parachutes battle Guam snakes
Guam has enlisted unlikely soldiers in its battle against an invasive breed of snake: 2000 mice dropped by parachute over the small Pacific Island.
The threat of war on our doorstep
THE drums of war are beating just to our north. Why? A fortune in oil - and a few dozen rocks - are putting us in a hard place.
Man loses climate change refugee plea
A PACIFIC islander has failed in his attempt to become the world's first climate change refugee, after an NZ judge said his case was "unconvincing".
Australian dies in PNG plane crash
AN Australian man, aged 38, has been confirmed as one of three people killed in a plane crash in Papua New Guinea. Seven survived the crash.
Husband kept wife prisoner 22 years
A WOMAN waived her right to anonymity to ensure her ex-husband's name could be published as he was jailed to 24 years for sex and violence charges.
Woman celebrates her mastectomy
A WOMAN who had a mastectomy hopes to help remove the fear and mystery about the operation by celebrating it in a picture exhibition online.
No roof, water, power in typhoon hospitals
THIS woman is forced to stay by her husband's bed, unable to eat or go to the bathroom because she is manually working a pump to keep him alive in post-typhoon Philippines.
Little relief amid apocalyptic rubble
A RUN-down, single-story building with filthy floors has become Tacloban's hospital after last week's typhoon. It has little medicine, no facilities and few doctors. What it is not short of is patients.
Anarchy rises as aid dribbles in
'IT'S survival of the fittest': Desperately needed food, water and medical aid is trickling into devastated Tacloban as thousands jam into the damaged airport.
PNG grenade attack 'kills 34'
AS MANY as 34 people have been killed in a remote part of Papua New Guinea after a grenade was thrown as part of a tribal war.
Please don't send shoes to typhoon victims
YOU'VE seen the devastation on TV and want to help. But before you clear out your cupboards, there's one thing they need more than your shoes and teddy bears.
Jackie refused to wipe off blood
HER pink suit and white gloves were caked with her husband's dried blood but the more people told Jackie Kennedy to change, the more adamant she became.
Typhoon horror: quake hits Philippines
A 4.8-MAGNITUDE earthquake has struck near San Isidro in the Philippines as hunger, thirst, and exposure threaten to take a fresh toll among Haiyan's victims.
Hitchhiker taken on horror ride
A BACKPACKER hitchhiking in New Zealand got a ride he won't forget after being picked up by a man who led police on two pursuits in a stolen car.
NZ 'bad boys' sons of celebrity, cop
ONE is the son of a minor celebrity. Another is the son of a cop. Together, the 'Roast Busters' have dodged charges for alleged rape and online bullying.
3 boys shot dead in Thailand's south
5:40PM THAI police say a family had returned from a local mosque and was about to enter their house when gunmen shot three children dead.
China police get man accused of killing 6
5:24PM CHINESE police catch a man accused of killing two men he thought were having affairs with his wife, along with the men's wives, two boys and an old man.
Abuse charge for educator in YouTube case
4:55PM A US school administrator subject of a YouTube video seen nearly a million times could get life in prison on child abuse charges.
Google must move 'mystery' barge in SF
4:36PM PERMIT issues mean Google must move a floating, four-story building in the middle of San Francisco Bay following numerous complaints.
Another big winter storm hits US east
3:50PM SNOW is nearing 20cm in Philadelphia and New York as yet another round of freezing winter weather grips parts of the United States.
No role in lane closures: US governor
3:50PM DURING an hour-long radio call-in, possible 2016 US presidential candidate Chris Christie has reiterated that he had no role in contentious lane closures.
More than 400 dead dolphins in north Peru
3:33PM PERUVIAN authorities say autopsy results are expected in two weeks on more than 400 dolphins found dead on the country's northern beaches.
US murderer recaptured after manhunt
3:18PM MICHAEL David Elliot, who escaped while serving life sentences at a US prison for the 1993 murders of four people, has been recaptured.
Police 'scared' fans at Hillsborough
12:23PM A NEW investigation into the Hillsborough tragedy, which killed 96 Liverpool fans in 1989, has uncovered a mass of doctored statements given by UK police.
A croc may be on the loose in the UK
12:23PM POLICE in southwest England are on the alert after a bus driver reported spotting a 1.8m crocodile under a bridge in Bristol.
US skydiving survivor walks again
12:23PM A 16-YEAR-OLD girl who plummeted more than 900m when her parachute failed to open correctly will be in hospital a while longer but should recover fully.
Strong 6.1 quake off eastern Indonesia
11:40AM THE US Geological Survey says a magnitude-6.1 earthquake has hit 318 kilometres east of Dili, East Timor.
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Adrift 13 months? A castaway story
THIRTEEN months adrift in a leaky boat. He says he survived by drinking bird blood, but authorities are trying to determine if this castaway is a miracle - or mad.