Members of the Pacific Islands Leaders Forum will travel to Fiji to see whether or not the situation has improved in the island nation.

Kamolket Akahad was treating an injured man, dressed as a medic, when she was shot and killed.

Bland and nondescript or strikingly like an image used to good effect in another election campaign?

Aucklanders will have a greater say in decisions affecting their greatest jewels - including the waterfront - under sweeping changes to plans for the Super City, announced yesterday.

Andrew Buncombe of The Independent describes the visceral scenes of death and destruction behind the Red Shirts' barricade.

A New Zealander caught up in the rioting in downtown Bangkok offers his perspective on the crisis.

Banks' strategists are going to have a hard time getting media to believe their political spin from now on.

What is the Super City? How is it structured? How will it work? Who holds the power? How do you vote?

Manukau Mayor Len Brown has a big lead on Auckland City Mayor John Banks in a Herald-DigiPoll survey on the Super City mayoralty.

This may have been a shotgun wedding, but David Cameron and Nick Clegg were determined to convince us that their parties really have fallen in love.

You don't have to be a swivel-eyed conspiracy theorist to think that David Cameron was bound to be Prime Minister one day.

Chances of a negotiated settlement of Thailand's two-month political standoff look very bleak.