Maritime troubadour Jimmy Buffett is dropping anchor in the city of sails next weekend. He talks to Graham Reid.

A New Zealander gives a harrowing account of how Haiti's nightmare is continuing.

He is from another era of current affairs television and tonight (Friday afternoon NZ time) that era will end.

NZ free diver William Trubridge has broken his own world-record, descending 100 metres below sea level on a single breath of air, only propelled by his arms and legs.

Despite its political and economic isolation, Aaron Smale finds Cuba a nation with joyful music hard-wired into the souls of its people.

Sun, sex and sand - is there anything that encapsulates them as well as rum? While rum is made around the world - even in countries notably bereft of sugar plantations such as Austria - it has become firmly linked to the Caribbean.

The disease has begun to infect residents of the capital's densely populated tent cities, where more than a million people are still living.

The world could run out of affordable chocolate within 20 years as farmers in West Africa abandon their crops, industry experts claim.

An AeroCaribbean airliner goes down near Havana, killing all 68 people on board.

A year after her nasty split from Chris Brown, singing superstar Rihanna not only has a new album out soon, but a promising movie career ahead. By Stephen Jewell.

Two of New Zealand's gold medallists from four years ago look to go back-to-back later tonight.

Thousands of residents and visitors have been ordered to evacuate an island on the North Carolina coast, as Hurricane Earl swings towards mainland USA.

Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn has poured cold water on Wyclef Jean's bid for the Haitian presidency.

The Spanish Foreign Minister yesterday told his country's parliament that Cuba would soon release "all" political prisoners.