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."

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

Coroner's report into the August 2013 murder suicide which shocked New Zealand is released.

A 20-year-old man has been arrested with the murder of Dunedin woman Karin Ann Ross.

Man accused of stabbing the woman to death in Wellington is in custody awaiting a mental health assessment.

A house in Kaikorai belonging to the co-worker of woman who was killed in Dunedin last week has been searched by police.

It is almost 18 months since Muhammad Rizalman bin Ismail, a military attache, attacked Wellington woman Tania Billingsley in her home.

Police have confirmed they are treating the "unexplained" death of Karin Ann Ross in Dunedin as a homicide.

Roofer Troy Taylor was the boyfriend of the 15-month-old boy's mother.

The family of one of two shooters who opened fire at a Southern Californian disability centre say they have no idea why he took part in the massacre.

The shooting in San Bernardino yesterday, where 14 people died, brought the number of mass shootings in the US to 355 this year.

A man charged with a violent sex attack on a prostitute in Canada has appeared in the Palmerston North District Court.

An Auckland woman suffered a badly bruised face following an "absolutely brutal" attempt to steal her car from a public park in broad daylight.