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.

A look at the conditions of detention faced by a NZ anti-whaling activist awaiting trial in Japan for disrupting whaling in the Southern Ocean.

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

Tuhoe are holding emergency hui to discuss John Key's announcement that iwi ownership of the Urewera National Park is off the negotiating table.

The 2007 'anti-terror raids' reaffirmed old suspicions and helped quicken the enthusiasm for a "Tuhoe Nation", writes historian Paul Moon.

A US judge says 'three strikes' laws can result in unfair sentences, have a limited deterrent effect and make it too easy to ignore rehabilitation.

Tuhoe representatives believe they had Cabinet numbers to secure ownership of Te Urewera National Park but say a nervous prime minister acting unilaterally stood in the way.

Conservative leader David Cameron became the UK's youngest prime minister in almost 200 years today.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown resigned with a brief, emotional statement this morning.