The centre is the only Montessori school in Northland.

A six-story building collapsed in Kenya's capital on Friday, officials said.

A grieving widow has told of the horrifying moment she discovered her husband's body.

All that glitters in the Sahara Desert is not simply gold, writes Ainsley Duyvestyn-Smith.

While the population suffers, King Mswati III spends millions on luxury cars for his wives

The moral dilemma of volunteer tourism.

Mo Dewji was walking outside a hotel gym when a gang of violent thugs abducted him.

Helicopters plucked people from their flooded homes as the typhoon wreaked havoc.

Across Africa, the number of lions has dropped by more than 40 per cent in two decades.

Behind the scenes, the Royal tour in Africa is not as posh as it seems.

Geldof on boyhood beatings, the Boomtown Rats and what he really said at Live Aid.

Mugabe, 95, was first celebrated as a liberator the criticised as a combative enforcer.

It was a last-minute decision, made after midnight in a bid to confuse the paparazzi.

The sharks that supported a diving industry in South Africa have disappeared.

Only two countries failed to join the ban on the trade of baby elephants

The first Kiwi to win at the Isle of Man, and a national and international champion.

Mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman's sudden death has left Mogadishu reeling.

It was a hot day in the chamber and lawmakers had just returned from a heavy lunch.

In Nigeria, an unidentified man was spotted by pilots approaching the plane on foot.

Musician Johnny Clegg, who defied racial barriers during SA's apartheid years, has died.

Islamic extremists took over a hotel in Somalia for more than 14 hours, leaving 26 dead.