Dunedin Hospital's ninth operating theatre is expected to increase available surgical time by 40 hours a week, the Southern District Health Board says.

The engine from a Royal New Zealand Air Force Harvard that crashed in Mt Aspiring National Park 60 years ago, killing one of the two men on board, has been discovered.

Discussions around the commercialisation of research from the University of Otago will take on a different dimension following a $130 million Government investment into Kiwi research and development.

An armed robber who was locked up for 19 of his 20 years in Australia and joined a notorious prison gang is being deported back to New Zealand.

One of the reasons why governments slowly decay and die is that the longer they are in office the more prone they become to ugly pragmatism and compromise of principle.

Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition parties.

A teenage girl who boarded a late-night Sydney bus allegedly punched the driver dozens of times.