Legislation to make stalking a specific criminal offence has passed its third reading in Parliament.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has vowed to repeal the Regulatory Standards Bill (RSB) if re-elected next year.

A government bill will stop schools opting out of international maths and reading tests and speed up intervention in failing schools.

Kissing didn't begin with star-crossed human lovers but with the primate ancestors of great apes around 20 million years ago, a new study says.

The Republican-controlled US Congress has voted almost unanimously to force the release of Justice Department files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

US President Donald Trump says Saudi's crown prince knew nothing about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents, offering a fierce defence that contradicts a US intelligence assessment.

The creator of the AI tool says trials reduced the average time spent on documenting patient notes from 17 minutes to four minutes.