Two people were killed and two others seriously injured in a crash after a police chase in an Auckland suburb last night.

Two people are dead and two critically injured after a tragic car crash in Auckland.

Flight-deck error, inadequate training and a maintenance slip caused the crash of an Air NZ jet, France's air safety board has determined.

An 8-year-old boy is in a serious condition in hospital after he was dragged under the wheels of a bus for 15m.

An eight-year-old boy is in hospital after he was dragged under a bus in front of horrified onlookers in west Auckland this afternoon.

The army is investigating how a box of ammunition fell off the back of one of its trucks and was run over by a car.

An Australian cop fatally shot in the head during a drugs raid in Sydney last week was killed by a bullet fired by a fellow officer, police confirm.

A 22-year-old New Zealand man has been arrested over the death of an 11-year-old girl in a boating accident in England.

Two men were injured when they were thrown into the sea after their motor launch collided with the Waiheke Island ferry last night.

All five people in the car had been drinking and the driver said she lost control after being distracted by a passenger.

Days after her partner died in last Saturday's tragedy, Dido Eden found a poem from him asking her to marry him.