New Zealand's financial regulator is probing two possible cases of insider trading and market manipulation, after receiving 15 complaints about such behaviour in the past year.

New Zealand scientists hope to discover what makes 350kg deep sea beast tick. Watch a live stream of the examination.

A police dog handler whose animal bit a suspected criminal, who turned out to be an innocent man relieving himself in a car park, has been cleared of any wrongdoing.

A desperate man managed to send two text messages to his partner after his boat sank, but they were dismissed as a joke.

Scientists at the Te Papa museum are hoping a colossal squid now in their possession is a male - making an already rare find an extraordinary one.

National's election war-chest has been given a half-million dollar boost by the estate of a wealthy Christchurch businessman.

National's Hamilton West MP Tim Macindoe has been referred to police along with Free FM in Hamilton for allegedly airing an election advertisement outside the proper period.

Plain packaging makes cigarettes taste worse than branded cigarettes and makes all cigarettes taste the same, new research suggests.

The pachinko industry in Japan wants casinos, driven by attendance that has sunk more than 60 per cent since the mid-90s and an uncertain legal status.

The BBC explains why it won't investigate Rolf Harris's career at the corporation.

Australian state governments spent A$17.6 billion on subsidies for mineral and fossil fuel industries over six years, including A$8 billion to help transport coal.

Australia is forecast to be among the fastest-growing economies this year, making it harder for the central bank to convince currency investors it won't raise interest rates.