Japanese media have expressed frustration at a NZ activist's anti-whaling protests, with one top newspaper accusing him of terrorism.

The leader of Australia's Green Party is backing a campaign to free anti-whaling protester Peter Bethune.

The place where the body of Pol Pot, the former Khmer Rouge leader, was unceremoniously burned in a pile of rubbish is set to be the latest location from Cambodia's dark recent history to be transformed into a tourist spot.

A group of six New Zealanders will this year attempt to jet-ski from London to Auckland, via Sydney.

Women students are demanding government action after a survey showed men with the same tertiary qualifications start earning more after one year.

Any deal with Japan to allow whaling would have to be very attractive to get New Zealand support, Foreign Minister Murray McCully says.

Leave your jandals at home and behave with dignity is the advice to Kiwis thinking of going to Gallipoli for the 95th commemoration of the Allied landing in World War 1.

Photos of the Hindu festival of colours, which heralds the coming of spring.

John Key has revealed that 15 New Zealand SAS troops in Afghanistan were involved in a gun fight with "insurgents" on Friday.

Wave activity "appears to be stabilised" at previously-reported levels, Civil Defence Emergency Management says.

This week I want to explain why women are pants at motor racing.

Pampering fit for a king is still on offer in the royal city of Agra, writes Audrey Young.