For the first time in a long while, the 'Ground Zero mosque' man is avoiding the press.

Prime Minister John Key and his wife, Bronagh, will be spending a weekend with the Queen at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.

At Merrill Lynch in 1998, the ever-cheerful John Key was nicknamed "the smiling assassin" after he fired some 50 members of his team.

There are plenty of lies being told on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, writes Gwynne Dyer.

For the first time in decades, a trilateral meeting between the US, Australia and NZ will be held.

Fiji's interim government has accused New Zealand of snubbing it by not attending the Engaging Fiji meeting in Nadi.

Murray McCully says Afghanistan's Bamiyan Province, where NZ troops have been since 2003, will be ready to stand on its own before Hamid Karzai's 2014 deadline.

The Obama administration wants a review of the decision to release the Libyan convicted in the Lockerbie airliner bombing.

On the way to Washington, British Prime Minister David Cameron says he wants to talk about Afghanistan, Middle East peace prospects and the global economy. Everyone else wants to talk about BP.

Columnist Garth George sounds off on the Andy Haden issue.

The interim Government in Fiji has expelled Australia's Acting High Commissioner today.