European leaders have called for higher spending to ramp up the continent's defence capabilities but remained split on the idea of deploying peacekeepers to Ukraine to back up any peace deal.

A man wanted for allegedly killing a seagull in the Octagon has been arrested. 

Members of a tennis club on Auckland's North Shore are shocked by the theft of their honesty box.

A man living in a  Wellington social housing complex recently deemed quake-prone says residents need stability and hopes some will be able to stay while work's carried out.