Two Northland fishermen stumbled on a scene resembling a winter wonderland after a freak hail storm left hundreds of metres of a remote beach blanketed in ice.

Convicted criminals could face being banned from going to the pub, concerts and sports events such as football matches under new plans by the British government.

A man who sent a series of sexually explicit photographs and a video of his ex-partner to her brother, in an attempt to humiliate her, told a court he was truly remorseful.

Lyle Menendez, imprisoned 35 years with his brother Erik for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents at their Beverly Hills home, was denied parole on Friday.

Ghislaine Maxwell told a top Justice Department official in July that she was not aware of any "client list" belonging to late financier Jeffrey Epstein.