All Black Sione Lauaki was today remanded for sentencing next month after pleading guilty to an assault charge in March.

Police cars are standing guard outside Beijing schools this week in an attempt to stop deadly assaults on students.

A lawyer representing murder accused Patricia Pickering told a court that charges brought against her were "one big, terrible mistake."

A man accused of stabbing his wife to death on a petrol station forecourt described in court today the moments leading up to her death.

A murder suspect reacted angrily when asked if he was behind the hit-and-run death of businesswoman Joanne Wang.

Sydney police now believe the murder of New Zealand-born nurse Michelle Beets as she arrived home last week was planned and that robbery was not the motive.

A teenager needed two rows of stitches and a steel plate to repair his shattered jaw after being beaten over the colour of his T-shirt.

The mother of three NZ children shot dead by their father broke her silence as they were laid to rest at their ancestral marae.