Fresh evidence has emerged that British military intelligence ran a secret operation in Iraq which authorised degrading and unlawful treatment of prisoners.

Japanese lawyers are lined up to defend incarcerated anti-whaling protester Peter Bethune, but an environmental group still hopes Japanese authorities will send him home.

A village which hosts tourists on its own terms fascinates Winston Aldworth.

Japanese media have expressed frustration at a NZ activist's anti-whaling protests, with one top newspaper accusing him of terrorism.

The leader of Australia's Green Party is backing a campaign to free anti-whaling protester Peter Bethune.

The place where the body of Pol Pot, the former Khmer Rouge leader, was unceremoniously burned in a pile of rubbish is set to be the latest location from Cambodia's dark recent history to be transformed into a tourist spot.

A group of six New Zealanders will this year attempt to jet-ski from London to Auckland, via Sydney.

Women students are demanding government action after a survey showed men with the same tertiary qualifications start earning more after one year.

Any deal with Japan to allow whaling would have to be very attractive to get New Zealand support, Foreign Minister Murray McCully says.

Leave your jandals at home and behave with dignity is the advice to Kiwis thinking of going to Gallipoli for the 95th commemoration of the Allied landing in World War 1.