Pomp and ceremony joined with a mutual love of rugby in John Key's one-day visit to Paris.

Sunni-Shia hostility in the Muslim world is likely to deepen because of the demolition of Shia holy places in Bahrain.

New documents have raised questions over Britain's involvement in the Iraq war.

James Fergusson tells David Larsen that he is less a risk taker than someone who follows stories where they lead.

Oil states are, by their nature, undemocratic.The despots who have ruled the Arab world for half a century are not giving up without a fight.

Through the cobbled alleys of Damascus' old city and beyond into the drab jungle of Soviet-style apartment blocks, nothing, it seems, misses the Syrian President's gaze.

Gwynne Dyer examines the western coalition's motives for taking action against Muammar Gaddafi's forces in Libya.

Syrian police launched a relentless assault on a neighbourhood sheltering anti-government protesters, fatally shooting at least 15 in a pre-dawn operation, witnesses said.

Simon Sebag Montefiore tells Stephen Jewell about writing ‘the greatest story ever told’ and why the history of Jerusalem is the story of the world.

Higher fuel prices are likely to mean lower profit margins and lower real wages.

Middle East tension poses a threat to the delicate global recovery.

All New Zealanders who wanted to leave Libya had now left, Foreign Minister Murray McCully says.