The boyfriend of a 19-year-old girl killed after she sat down on a dark road has spoken of the drunken argument just before the tragedy.

It might be a film named for our greatest rail disaster but Tangiwai is also a tragic tale of love and cricket.

Actor James Franco accidentally ripped off a piece of his thumb while filming new biopic The Broken Tower in a remote town in Mexico.

A trio of Napier children are in hospital with injuries including multiple fractures and head trauma after road carnage in the early hours of today. The children were in a stationwagon that hit head-on....