Addressing a crowd of 14,000 in a University of Arizona arena, Barack Obama said exactly what you would hope.

More than half of all voters support keeping MMP, a new poll shows.

Southern Sudan looks to have voted for secession from the Arab-led north of the country.

It would be dangerous to instantly suggest that the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was the product of a poisoned political climate in the United States.

There was something awfully inevitable about the Tucson shooting, writes the Herald's Foreign Editor Nicola Lamb.

The Republican Movement's Lewis Holden says nominations for Governor-General should be made by the public.

The Whakatane District Council faces turmoil with the possibility of 10,000 residents defecting to neighbouring Kawerau.

Protesters have won countless rights for Britons - now authorities are stifling their voices when they most need to be heard.