Fire and Emergency New Zealand (Fenz) firefighters from Dunedin Central, St Kilda and Willowbank stations attend a small fire at Save Mart, in Stafford St, yesterday.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has sidestepped the question of whether he backs a police bid to charge an Australian diplomat's partner accused of a late-night street fight.
Tens of thousands of North Carolina residents remain without running water days after Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida and carved a deadly, destructive path through much of the US Southeast.
A further 500 airline seats for Australians, permanent residents and their immediate families have been secured across two flights out of Lebanon to Cyprus as conflict escalates in the region.
Israel has bombed central Beirut, killing at least six people, after its forces suffered their deadliest day on the Lebanese front in a year of clashes against Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah.
A Russian guided bomb has struck a five-storey apartment block in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, starting fires and injuring at least 10 people, officials said.
The private investigator who helped clear the name of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder says it was an "absolute absurdity" she was ever charged in the first place.
One of two US doctors among five people charged in the overdose death of Friends star Matthew Perry has pleaded guilty to illegally distributing ketamine.