Claims that IPL players were pressured to play after bombs exploded outside an Indian stadium are being investigated.

Former NZ Black Cap Simon Doull says it's not worth the risk to your life, after two bombs went off at a stadium in Bangalore where he was about to commentate an IPL match.

A compromise being negotiated by the IWC could save 5000 whales over the next ten years

A report claims 14 and 15-year-olds were employed at a Chinese supplier, working shifts from 7.45am until 10.55pm - for 52 cents an hour.

NZ is the fourth most economically free country in the world according to a US think tank and the Wall Street Journal.

A 37-year-old man, who shot dead his three children in Melbourne, lived in NZ for five years earlier this decade before moving to Victoria.

Sharon Stephenson creates her own gastronomic heaven.

A Hong Kong listed company controlled by billionaire Li Ka-Shing is seeking damages from BlueScope Steel Ltd over a failed attempt to buy a New Zealand iron sands business.

A game in which horseriders struggle for possession of a headless goat should be unleashed globally, an Afghan fan says.

Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, who was poised to marry an Indian tennis star, has admitted he is married to another Indian woman.

Two New Zealand aid workers are safe and well following this morning's earthquake in Indonesia.

Sydney Smith describes the wonderful holiday she won in the Herald Travel-Singapore Airlines Travel Magic competition last year.