Former US President George W. Bush, a Republican, does not plan to make an endorsement or voice how he or his wife Laura will vote in the presidential election in November.
French politician Roland Dumas will forever be remembered by New Zealanders as his country’s foreign minister at the time of the Rainbow Warrior controversy.
A national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II will be erected in a London park, at a site which the British govt says has historical significance and a close personal connection to the record-breaking monarch.
A lawyer for Donald Trump has urged an appeals court to throw out an $8 million verdict finding Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll, saying testimony from two other female accusers was improperly admitted at trial.
The world is emerging from its warmest northern hemisphere summer since records began, the European Union's climate change monitoring service says, as global warming continues to intensify.
Prof Robert Patman believes the strengthening of Kingitanga will focus the government’s attention on its commitment to the Pacific and challenge it to do more to champion the rights of indigenous people worldwide.
Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, has pleaded guilty to federal tax charges, a surprise move that avoids a potentially embarrassing trial weeks before the US presidential...
Ugandan Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei has died, hospital officials said on Thursday, days after she was doused in petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend.
A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze that killed 72 people blamed the disaster on failings by the govt, construction industry and firms involved in fitting the exterior with flammable cladding.
A public inquiry into a 2017 fire at the Grenfell Tower apartments in London that killed 72 people is to issue a report on Wednesday, with survivors and families hoping it spells out who was to blame.
At least 50 people have been killed and 271 wounded after Russia hit a military institute in Ukraine's Poltava - the war's deadliest single attack this year.
The deadly avian flu virus spreading in Antartica probably arrived in migratory birds and is affecting a wide range of bird species as well as southern elephant seals.