New Zealand politics academics are at loggerheads over whether former prime ministers Helen Clark and Sir John Key should be rubbing shoulders with "authoritarian axis" rulers in China.
Leaving home, educational pressures, financial stress and social tensions - they are all unique strains that can lower "happiness levels" in young adults.
Security cameras installed on scaffolding around Dunedin’s Municipal Chambers and Civic Centre to deter people performing parkour are working a treat, representatives have been told.
A supermarket duty manager was left with facial injuries after a man punched him in the head, then kicked him as he lay on the ground, in a brutal surprise attack.
The man accused of lighting the fatal Loafers Lodge fire told a forensic psychiatrist voices in his head told him to burn the place down, a court has heard.
An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 has shaken southeastern Afghanistan, almost two days after a large quake in the same region killed more than 1400 people and injured thousands more.
A Canterbury University professor has criticised Helen Clark and John Key's appearance at a military parade in China attended by the likes of Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un.