Once again, the question seeks an answer: Is there a secret chamber inside what is arguably the world's most famous tomb?

This tradition is revered by people across North Africa, but much less known beyond.

President Donald Trump denounced arguments against his immigration order as "disgraceful".

Nearly one in two Americans support Donald Trump's block on some immigrants

Prime Minister Bill English has a duty to speak out against US President Donald Trump's ban on Muslim travellers, the Green Party says.

Of all the gin joints in all the world, Pat McCarthy walked into this one.

Justine Tyerman comes close to hugging a strange man at the airport in Marrakesh ...

Winston Aldworth takes to a bicycle for a new view of Tanzania.

Border officials first became suspicious of the young woman when they saw her using a trolley to carry just one rolling suitcase.

Israel bars Kiwi ambassador from entering the country in further fallout from the UN Security Council's resolution to condemn settlements in occupied territories.

BP has agreed its second huge deal in days with the energy giant revealing a near $1 billion investment in gas fields off Northwest Africa.

Kiwis will now need a visa to travel to South Africa, matching New Zealand moves earlier this year.

A man hit by a car in South Africa last week was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, and his body then placed in a refrigerator at a local mortuary.

An ancient Egyptian city and graveyard has been uncovered by archaeologists.

Elly Warren, from Melbourne, was expected to return to Australia on Monday before heading to New Zealand with her boyfriend for a holiday.

Safari tourism is big business in Botswana, writes Mike Munro.

The United Nations have said that at least 239 migrants have drowned this week in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya.

New Zealand cooperatives - particularly those in Wellington - have a lot to offer under-developed countries.

They survived Boko Haram, now millions are at risk of starvation. It has been described as one of the world's biggest humanitarian disasters.

Dozens of people died Sunday at a festival after security forces fired tear gas into a crowd during a political protest and provoked a stampede.

Journalist Jakub Kyncl was granted a rare chance to photograph the historic tombs.

The parents who abused their teenage daughter because they thought she was a witch have been condemned by the leader of New Zealand's

The death of a 1-year-old Nigerian baby had many authors - Boko Haram's viciousness, his own government's negligence, and starvation's relentlessness.

The Lion Man has hit back at new claims he abuses his animals at his big cat sanctuary in South Africa, saying "you cannot abuse a lion."

Seeing animals in their own environment is worth the hefty price, writes Rachel Muir.

Courtney Whitaker stays at a luxurious hotel within Marrakesh's 13th-century kasbah walls.

Once boasting a 14-story high pile of rubbish, this apartment tower made the journey from menacing to desirable.

Once defined by images of famine, Ethiopia is now one of the most progressive nations in Africa, Sarah Marshall discovers.

Stephen Jennings made his fortune in Russia but he's happy to be out and is eyeing a new prize.

He's worth just under a billion dollars, and he says NZ's overheated property market is exacerbating social divisions.