A woman killed in her Wellington home kept bags of money containing thousands of dollars in cash hidden around her house, including $50,000 in her freezer.

When Evan Kiddey first opened Dead Video in Christchurch, he was given one piece of advice by everyone he spoke to: “Don’t do it”. Now his retro video store is standing strong in the face of the digital era.

At least 20 people were killed and dozens injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Mar Elias Church in the Dweila neighborhood of Syria's capital Damascus.

Foreign affairs minister Winston Peters says the government will gather the facts before taking a position on the United States' airstrikes on Iran.

The trial of a 53-year-old accused of killing her mother is set to begin at the High Court in Wellington today.

Iran and Israel traded air and missile strikes as the world braces for Tehran's response to the US attack on its nuclear sites and Trump raised the idea of regime change in the Islamic republic.