Niwa’s unauthorised competition with MetService appears to have paid off, with the government giving the go-ahead for it to absorb the state-owned weather forecaster.
Juvenile Chacma baboons play on a vehicle during a raid on refuse bins by a troop of Chacma baboons foraging in the residential neighbourhood of Capri in Cape Town, South Africa, yesterday.
North Korea has blown up sections of inter-Korean roads and rail lines on its side of the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas, prompting South Korea's military to fire warning shots.
If everything was going to plan, the organisers behind Bay Dreams would have announced the world’s biggest rapper — Kendrick Lamar — to headline their January music festival, set to be held in Tauranga and Queenstown.
Canada has expelled six Indian diplomats including the high commissioner, linking them to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader and alleging a broader effort to target Indian dissidents in Canada.