Austrian authorities were searching on Wednesday for answers to why a 21-year-old gunman shot 10 people in a rampage at his former high school before killing himself.
Erin Patterson has been accused of sending health authorities on a "wild goose chase" to track down the shop where she claimed to have bought dried mushrooms used in a deadly lunch.
Police did not check a report from nurses that a mental health patient had attacked a woman with an axe because they say they were provided with "little other information".
A well-known Wellington landlord is facing multiple charges including strangulation, threatening to kill, and making and distributing an intimate recording.
Hundreds of US Marines are in the LA area under orders from President Donald Trump, as the mayor declared a curfew for parts of the city and police arrested 197 people in a fifth day of protests.
Private investigators looking for an American aviation student missing from Palmerston North for more than a week say he has been found "in good health".
Jarreth Colquhoun died after saying he could successfully make the jump off a Wellington crane - a belief perhaps fuelled by drugs, a coroner has found.
Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg has been deported from Israel, a day after the Israeli navy prevented her and a group of fellow pro-Palestinian activists from sailing to Gaza.