The knives found near the body of a stabbed woman in a suitcase have been handed around a jury in a transparent case.

The NZOC says the decision of the three team sports to engage their own security advice ahead of the Delhi Games defies logic.

An Auckland woman died after being stabbed in the heart twice before having her body stuffed inside a suitcase, a court heard today.

Advice on travelling in Asia with a toddler.

There is speculation that the fourth Bledisloe Cup test could be moved from Hong Kong to Europe due to poor ticket sales.

As a soldier in Vietnam, Karl Marlantes came face-to-face with war. Thirty years later he has turned that experience into a New York Times best-seller.

World celebrates 21 years in the fashion business and its ongoing plans to keep breaking barriers.

Matt Crook reports on a smack-you-in-the-face adventure.

In World War II the railway line between Thailand and Burma was built by Allied prisoners of war and Asian labourers to give the Japanese an overland supply route.

One-time factory worker Zhang Xin rode China's property boom.

Maurice Williamson's comments that opponents of land sales to foreigners were sometimes being racist was a case of humour backfiring, John Key said today.

The temple of a famous Buddhist reconciles tensions between communism and religion, writes Jim Eagles.