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....

A farmer was recovering in hospital last night after being charged at by a bull which threw him almost two metres into the air.