Twenty-one people abducted in the southern Philippines have been found dead in an attack linked to next year's elections.

A $400m "little NZ" to be built in China will create up to 600 Kiwi jobs and open up "unprecedented" opportunities, say Maori involved.

300 animals - including some that are extinct in the wild - were sold to a Northern Territory hunting safari.

The birth mother of conjoined twins Krishna and Trishna - who gave them up due to poverty - wants them to remain in Australia.

Whether it's shares, commodities or precious metals, prices have rebounded sharply.

Film on cyclone survivors defies government crackdown.

This year's Apec leaders' meeting vividly demonstrated who really has the clout and who hasn't.

Facts about global warming are not always gospel.

John Key will pay an official visit to Washington next year following a personal invitation to the White House from President Barack Obama.

John Key had "quite a fruitful" discussion with US president Barack Obama during the official Apec leaders' dinner last night, and also breakfasted with him today, writes John Armstrong.

A New Zealand woman has been hospitalised after a speeding train derailed in western India.

In the biggest methamphetamine bust in New Zealand this year, 6kg of the the class A drug was intercepted at Auckland airport.