New Zealanders travelling to or through the UK will need an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) to enter the country from this week on.

US President-elect Donald Trump is refusing to rule out using military or economic action to pursue acquisition of the Panama Canal and Greenland, part of a broader expansionist agenda he's promoted since winning the November election.

The US will rebuild a stockpile of bird flu vaccines for poultry matching the strain of the virus circulating in commercial flocks and wild birds, in a sign of the widespread and devastating nature of a persistent outbreak.

Results from last night's Lotto draw.

Floating gracefully through the air at high speed, twisting and turning like in aerial ballet, you could just about set the moves of high-performing mountainbikers to music.