China refused to participate in the Sea Law case and does not recognise it as a legitimate exercise under international law.

It is hard to escape the sense that Hekia Parata should have gone further when announcing a limited inclusion of digital technology in school curriculum.

State housing and building programmes are just the political branding of a package that contains more potent taxation inside.

If the gun lobby in the US has been impervious to the carnage caused by lax gun laws, it surely cannot continue to ignore the power of phone cameras.

The Ministry of Health refuses to fund a simple sleeping pod for babies so they might more safely sleep alongside their mothers.

Way out in space, so far that it takes a message nearly an hour to reach earth, the Nasa craft Juno is doing what the classical mythologists anticipated.

John Chilcot produced his verdict on the Blair Government's decision to join the US' invasion of Iraq. None of its findings are a surprise.

First Trump, then Brexit, now the Australian election has produced a rebellion of sorts.

Editorial: The PM's announced $1 billion fund for interest-free loans for infrastructure to support new housing developments is another piece in the continuing response to its most pressing problem.

The ritual unveiling of the New Zealand Olympic uniform follows a now familiar path.

When most of us look at a map of Auckland's railways, a spur line to the airport appears obvious and easy.

The Prime Minister was too quick to declare his confidence in this country's treatment of foreign trusts following the "Panama papers".

If Britain stands to suffer most from its foolish decision last week, the EU could be hurt just as badly if it cannot eject Britain quickly.

School zoning was a subject once close to the heart of public education. Now it serves a vested interest of a different sort.

The test table is being set for the real deal before the next Rugby World Cup - the British and Irish Lions tour next year.

The City will no doubt survive as a financial capital but United Kingdom is unlikely to.

The Government's decision to extend the service of New Zealand soldiers in Iraq beyond next February's deadline is the right one.

The EU has overreached its remit in many respects, yet the world is better when Europe is together. Britain should stay.

The deathknell sounded for yet another custom this week, with the TAB hanging up the service which let punters place bets over the phone by talking to an operator.

Bullies once confined their behaviour to the schoolyard. The digital world has changed all that, as our revealing series about cyberbullying illustrates this week.

We will never know precisely why a 29-year-old American went to a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and started shooting people.

This year has carried hopes of a breakthrough for "pay equity", which means equal pay for women not just with men doing the same work but with men doing different work.

Back in the day Wales could run on to a rugby paddock and field a team stacked with A-list names.

In a country where it is perfectly safe to drink water from a tap, it is incredible that anybody can make money by selling water in bottles.

Why should this Pacific nation, half the world away from the sovereign's palace, retain a foreign head of state?

Pity the British. Here in NZ we have referendums on subjects such as the flag; they have them on the make-up of their nation and its place in the world.

If the railway works as its planners intend, it will make Auckland a more compact city, boosting its CBD and attracting more dense development.

The return of Manu Vatuvei to the playing field today is doubly welcome. The stuttering Warriors sorely need the hulking winger's presence.

A week ago, when the Budget had delivered no answers to the hyperinflation of house prices, the PM told us to wait for a National Policy Statement.

Why are some people still smoking despite everything that has been done to discourage them? Why should the next four annual increases make any difference?