Police investigating the death of Raymond Piper, who was last seen on May 15, have arrested a 51-year-old Paraparaumu man in relation to the killing.

An Auckland woman's court-imposed driving ban for drink-driving has been overturned because she was escaping a sexual assault at the time.

Police say that as a Chinese citizen, Zhen Xiao may stand trial in his home country rather than in New Zealand.

"Count yourself lucky," Justice Warwick Gendall told Joanne Jasmine Tahuri as he sentenced her for the manslaughter of her granddaughter.

Shayne Sime was issued a gun licence just two years before he turned his weapons on Christchurch police.

A man who stabbed his wife to death on the forecourt of a service station has been jailed for life, with a minimum non-parole period of 14-1/2 years.

Dylan Rimoni was in bed struggling to breathe and slowly dying from a brain injury while his caregiver played internet poker.

Melbourne police have arrested a 15-year-old boy in connection with the killing of Indian student Nitin Garg.

Queensland's crime watchdog has slammed the way police handled the death in custody of Palm Island man Cameron Doomadgee.

Powerful evidence suggested Patricia Pickering killed the three-year-old boy in her care, a court heard today.

Education officials are working to clarify a "grey area" for school staff around their powers to search students suspected of carrying weapons and drugs.

Kiwi Blazej Kot has been sentenced to 25 yrs to life in prison for fatally slashing his wife's throat in the US.

Members of a UK 'Happy Slapping' gang have admitted killing a retired care worker in front of his young granddaughter.