Presidents, royalty and simple mourners have farewelled Pope Francis at a solemn funeral ceremony where a cardinal appealed for the pontiff's caring legacy to be kept alive.
The election of a new pope is highly secretive and nothing is certain until the white smoke pours from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel. So who are the contenders to be the new leader of the Catholic Church?
Pope Francis changed the face of the modern papacy more than any predecessor by shunning pomp and privilege, but his attempts to make the Catholic Church more inclusive made him an enemy to conservatives.
After spending more than five weeks in hospital, doctors told Pope Francis he needed two months' rest - but the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics kept working right to the end.
After three years and two trials, a former US police officer has been sentenced to three years in jail over the fatal shooting of a Christchurch-born man in Colorado.
PM Christopher Luxon has repeated his view that a trade war is playing out between the US and China, despite Foreign Minister Winston Peters calling the language "hysterical".
US President Donald Trump's administration has granted exclusions from steep tariffs on smartphones, computers and some other electronics imported largely from China.
US President Donald Trump has said foreign governments would have to pay "a lot of money" to lift sweeping tariffs that he characterized as "medicine".
NZ will now see hundreds of millions of dollars in tariffs added to goods sent to the US after President Donald Trump imposed a base of 10% on all exports.
South Korean adoption agencies sent children abroad like "luggage" for decades, committing numerous human rights violations in the process, a landmark inquiry has found.