French police reinforcements have started arriving in New Caledonia as part of a massive operation to regain control of the capital Nouméa after electoral reform sparked rioting.
The friends of a man who was allegedly murdered while camping with his childhood sweetheart have told a jury about his secretive affair with the woman.
The state of emergency in New Caledonia presents a considerable challenge for NZ's foreign policy efforts in the Pacific, international relations expert Prof Robert Patman says.
All White Clayton Lewis is one of three A-League players arrested over their alleged involvement in a betting scandal involving deliberate yellow cards.
Despite having an evolutionary history of more than 150 million years and surviving the extinction of dinosaurs, the leatherback sea turtle is critically endangered in the Pacific region.
Carol Clay's daughter became concerned her mother's affair with Russell Hill would be made public when police approached her about telling media they had gone missing together, a jury has been told.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing for talks with Xi Jinping the Kremlin hopes will deepen a strategic partnership between the two most powerful geopolitical rivals of the US.
The man accused of murdering schoolgirl Charlise Mutten sent a string of violent voicemails to her mother threatening to kill her if she didn't return his car to him.
A Sydney council's decision to ban books featuring same-sex parenting has been reversed after a fiery chambers session and a standoff between protesters.
A massive manhunt is continuing for a fugitive gangster in France, a day after he was sprung from a prison van by gunmen in an attack that killed two prison guards.
France has declared a state of emergency in New Caledonia after three young indigenous Kanak and a police official were killed in riots over electoral reform.
Gunmen ambushed a prison van in France on Tuesday to free a drug dealer, killing two prison guards, severely wounding three and triggering a major police manhunt.
A bus carrying farm labourers in northern Florida collided with a pickup truck and overturned, killing at least eight people and critically injuring eight others, authorities say.