South Otago community leaders are denying claims of a racist subculture in the region, following allegations concerning a rifle club of which the alleged mosque gunman was a member.

Dunedin’s Fringe Festival aims to bring experimental contemporary art to a wider audience, so the Otago Art Society has embraced an age-old practice with a twist in its latest exhibition, ‘‘The Nude’’.

More than 1000 people were feared dead in Mozambique four days after a cyclone slammed into the country, submerging entire villages and leaving bodies floating in the floodwaters.

A gunman has killed three people and wounded five during a tram ride in the Dutch city of Utrecht, raising the spectre of another extremist attack only days after the murderous rampage in NZ.