Two flatmates had an unexpected dinner guest when a woman drove in through the living room window.

A man was last night fighting for his life after falling off a balcony and suffering with broken bones and a severe head injury.

The mother of a baby girl who died after being found face down in a bath was regularly visited by Child Youth and Family.

The NZ teacher crushed after crawling into an east Sussex wheelie bin following a night out earlier tried to share a taxi with two women he met at a pub, an inquest into his death hears.

The father of a NZ soldier in Afghanistan, who saved two British colleagues from a live grenade, says he's "just glad (his son) came out of it".

The actions of a quick thinking NZ soldier save the lives of two British Army colleagues during a Taleban grenade attack in Afghanistan.

A young mother frantically tried to revive her baby daughter after finding the infant floating face down in the bath next to her twin.

The body of a middle-aged man without a lifejacket was found floating in Auckland's Waitemata Harbour yesterday, renewing safety calls.

The devastated parents of a young woman who died suddenly during a touch rugby game tell of desperate attempts to revive her in front of her family and fiance.

Detectives are hunting for a mystery vehicle which left the scene of a horror car crash in Canterbury and claimed the life of a popular university lecturer.

An Australian woman decided cake was the order of the day after mistaking a serious snake bite for a simple scratch.