A caregiver who killed his tetraplegic friend was today jailed for at least 14 years.

A woman on trial for murdering her 13 month-old son showed "no emotion" as the infant lay dead on her bed, an Auckland jury has heard.

The family of Sophie Elliott have no end in sight as a planned appeal by her killer, Clayton Weatherston, is delayed.

It was Australia's most celebrated murder case, dividing the nation and igniting fierce debate even years on.

Aid workers have been reviewing their operations in perilous Afghanistan.

A "desperate" mother unable to cope with both her children murdered her 13 month-old baby son by leaving him alone to drown in a deep bath, the Auckland High Court has heard.

Three people have been arrested after two police officers were punched, kicked and bitten as they tried to break up a domestic incident.

Detectives are trying to piece together the secret life of a police officer who was stabbed to death in his home last weekend.

The American mother of three children who were found dead in an Edinburgh house faces criminal charges, police said.

The teacher stabbed by a Korean student at Avondale College has been criticised in an inquiry into the incident.

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Broke and desperate, Tania Aziz devised a plan to seriously injure her boss. With him in hospital, she could take over his kebab shop lease.

Shock-jock Michael Laws went head to head with David Bain supporter Joe Karam on the Bain family murders this morning.

Four police officers beating a young man with batons and pepper-spraying him 65 times was "unnecessary, unreasonable, and unjustified", the IPCA has found.

A 52-year-old man charged with the murder of a Wellington woman found beaten to death in her Newtown flat last week has been remanded in custody.

A man shot by police after allegedly presenting an airgun at them last month says he thought he was playing a joke on his brother.