Fiji police have refused to confirm that a man wanted in connection with the death of his wife near Huntly last week has been caught.

Name suppression for a 21-year-old Hastings man charged with killing a five-month-old baby was lifted in court today.

Honour killings have taken place in New Zealand, a spokesperson for an ethnic women's group says.

A young mother left burning to death on a rural road was in a violent marriage to a man now the focus of an international manhunt.

Police have launched an international search to find the husband of a woman burned to death by the side of a Waikato road last week, after he flew to Fiji with their four-year-old son the day after her body was found.

The husband of a woman found burned to death next to a Huntly road last week fled overseas with the couple's four-year-old son the day after her body was found, say police.

A 9-year-old boy helped rescue Nortessa Montgomerie yesterday, 36 hours after she was abducted on Great Barrier Island.

As Toby Carroll begins his 49th day in a Dubai prison, his family fear his property career could already be ruined.

One of the country's most notorious killers has told one of his victims what she has waited nearly 15 years to hear.

A woman whose body was found burning by a remote Waikato road was alive when she was set on fire.

A woman and man missing on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf have been found near Claris on the east coast of the island, police say.

The desert town near the Mexican border is a sanctuary for those who flee the big cities - bikers, students and artists. Ed Vulliamy, who is a resident, believes Tucson will overcome a lone gunman's rampage.

Model Priscila Ferreira is at the centre of a love triangle in which a Kiwi man is being held by Dubai police.

Great Barrier residents warned to stay inside as police hunt a man wanted for abducting his ex-girlfriend and attacking her new partner with a crowbar.

A British woman found in bed with a NZ man in a Dubai apartment had previously worked as lapdancer, a British newspaper reported today.

A primary teachers' union hopes an inquiry into a serious case of child abuse will reveal the Govt's role in its handling. The Govt received two letters about the girl, including one months before the girl was discovered by police with huge

A judge this afternoon ruled that name suppression should continue for a 28-year-old woman accused of murdering her newborn baby.

The identity of a man accused of two murders in a $2 million mansion can now be revealed. Name suppression was lifted on a 51-year-old who was charged with the murders of two men in the Auckland suburb of Mt Albert.

A former NZ horse trainer is accused of killing her ex-boyfriend in the UK and watching his body burn while she drank red wine with a friend.

The New Zealand man caught in a violent love triangle in Dubai has reportedly spent six weeks in jail without being charged.

The mother who has been accused of "horrific" abuse against her 9-year-old daughter wrote to the Prime Minister last year seeking help, it has been revealed.