A Kiwi academic has plotted out seven ways war with North Korea would unfold.

COMMENT:Coalition talks paranoia was such that staff were too petrified to talk to anyone.

US Ambassador to NZ says the welcome mat is out to properly vetted tourists.

Trump has slammed UN "mismanagement" and bragged about Trump World Tower.

New details have been revealed about NZ's attempts to court Donald Trump.

Sir John Key is playing down his Australian award.

Steve Braunias takes on allcomers in political table tennis.

Niue Premier Toke Talagi disgruntled that New Zealand brought in the food for lunch.

PM Bill English has his reasons for staying mum on Trump - but it may have a cost.

A female guard at a North Korean camp has spoken about terrible incidents she saw.

The American student was detained in North Korea for attempting to steal a poster.

Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee won't say whether NZ will back intervention in Nth Korea.

North Korea has issued a warning to our Tasman neighbours over their pro-US stance.

North Korea has been secretly training elite special forces to kidnap Westerners.

Managing NZ's complex relationship with China has been a key preoccupation for McCully.

Bill English will only let his ministers take partners on overseas trips if there is a need for it.

On a visit to Wellington, Hungary's Foreign Minister Szijjarto talks about being snubbed in Washington, and why Donald Trump is good for the world.

President Donald Trump will be sending a chill through the intelligence services.

Two Texas students were reprimanded after they performed a skit portraying the assassination of President-elect Donald Trump.

Of all the images emerging from this testing week, the sight of a military flotilla standing off Kaikoura counts among the most extraordinary.

The trend against globalisation is a western phenomenon, not matched in developing economies, a visiting expert says.

The Malaysian diplomat convicted of indecently assaulting a Wellington woman has been deported after finishing his sentence.

COMMENT: Melania Trump has been pooper-scooping after Donald since 1998, but she will never be cast as a victim, in her eyes or anyone else's.

The United Nations' next boss is a charismatic, former socialist prime minister who led the UN's refugee agency during one of its most difficult times.

Ties between New Zealand and Sri Lanka have been cemented this morning as Ranil Wickremesinghe visits Auckland.

New Zealand will hand over the responsibility of carrying out polls on the Secretary General job to Russia in September to ensure there is no perception of a conflict of interest.

COMMENT: On one hand our two governments are building a free trade zone to continually deepen our cooperation on trade and investment. On the other, we are creating a new history of exchanges on culture and language, writes Wang Lutong.

The Turkish leader has two goals: to ensure the destruction of Assad's regime, and to prevent the creation of a new Kurdish state in Syria, writes Gwynne Dyer.

COMMENT: Russia's President has been taught a lesson with the shooting of a warplane over Turkish air space.

The downing of a Russian SU24 fighter jet by Turkish authorities was inevitable. Russia has flouted the territorial border of Turkey time and again in the past few months so it is no surprise that this has happened.