A man was stabbed to death overnight.

In tears and distress and clutching her son close to her body, this is the moment after Melissa George left the emergency ward of

A meeting between a father and the man who murdered his daughter is one step closer to happening.

A public tip-off to police days after the fatal shooting of George Taiaroa suggested a gang may have been involved in the stop-go operator's death.

A man had his jaw broken and was knocked unconscious in an alleged assault in Queenstown this morning.

The NZ judge heading the UK's historical child abuse inquiry has shocked barristers by admitting that she is confused by English law.

A new documentary exposes the trauma young teens go through and how social media and bullying can kill.

A man before the courts in relation to the shooting death of a 2-year-old girl at her Mangere home last month will be charged with manslaughter.

Moko Sayviah Rangitoheriri, 3, died in August last year of horrific injuries inflicted by his carers.

Chris Finlayson waited until after the sentencing of Tania Shailer and David Haerewa to comment on the case since the pair pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

COMMENT: Police Commissioner Mike Bush accepted for the first time that Teina Pora, twice convicted for the murder, was innocent.

A New Zealand man has reportedly been stabbed while walking along a beach in Thailand.

FBI agents had Omar Mateen on their radar for years, and long suspected him of jihadist sympathies.

COMMENT: The latest act of terror in Florida has once again raised questions about the malicious influence of radical Islam.

COMMENT: On average around 200 Americans are killed and wounded in mass shootings every month

COMMENT: Without any explanation, a decision was made to withdraw a murder charge that shocked and appalled many.The public has not yet been told why.

Although the law doesn't allow it as a defence, lawyers are still making provocation claims in homicide trials, a legal expert says.

A young shopkeeper says she could not defend herself against six teen girls as they landed punch after punch while she tried to take refuge in the back of a dairy.

Amanda Knox's ex-boyfriend, who was also accused of the murder of Meredith Kercher, has landed a job on an Italian TV show as a murder expert.

New details have emerged of how a top Wellington health professional beat his partner and then escaped conviction.

A High Court judge says if he's forced to adjourn a murder trial involving a Taupo toddler, he will be calling for an inquiry into New Zealand's forensic and pathology system.

A man has been charged after breaking a student's jaw in an unprovoked attack in central Wellington.

A promising young rugby player's assault on his ex girlfriend's new man might affect his chances of a Super Rugby call-up.

Kiwi has avoided a conviction for punching a man who was at a bar with the sportsman's ex-girlfriend.

"I just burst into tears when I saw in the mirror that I had no teeth."

Richard Tait beat, raped and then strangled girlfriend.

DISTRESSING IMAGES: Former world squash champion Ross Norman is on the mend after being the victim of a random bashing in the UK.

More than two years after Trevor Waite's death, his whole family misses him - on every birthday, every Christmas and every other anniversary.