A Sydney council's decision to ban books featuring same-sex parenting has been reversed after a fiery chambers session and a standoff between protesters.
A massive manhunt is continuing for a fugitive gangster in France, a day after he was sprung from a prison van by gunmen in an attack that killed two prison guards.
Two dredge workers have described how they were called into action to save an unconscious man in Otago Harbour after a rescue helicopter ran into difficulties.
A man who met a young woman on a dating app while on a working holiday in New Zealand is to be deported later this year after he finishes a sentence of home detention for rape.
Forest & Bird has raised concerns about the power that ministers could have, after it was revealed Regional Development Minister Shane Jones dined with a mining company's deputy chair and failed to report it.