Goff has spent much of the past week playing political football with two of New Zealand's major trading relationships.

Leaders of the main moderate Palestinian factions have voted to oppose further negotiations while building continues in Jewish settlements.

The NZOC were given a graphic warning two years ago about the conditions they could face in Delhi - by themselves.

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.