People around the world have celebrated as Aung San Suu Kyi was this week freed from seven years of house arrest. She says she will continue to fight for human rights and the rule of law in the military-ruled nation of Myanmar.

A former Burmese political prisoner says Aung San Suu Kyi is 'the hope of the nation'.

Sarah Palin's in trouble over a segment of her Alaskan reality TV show.

Aung San Suu Kyi's release will no doubt raise hopes and expectations.

Thousands of wildly cheering supporters welcomed the end of the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi.

The police were helpless to contain the crowd's enthusiasm when the barricades around Suu Kyi's house were taken down.

Russia has identified the double agent who betrayed its United States spy ring this year.

An Auckland university campus rejected about 50 foreign students who could speak barely a word of English.

John Key says Pansy Wong is "paying a very heavy price", for wrongly claiming a Parliamentary travel perk on a 2008 trip to China.

Pansy Wong's media statement on her resignation as a Cabinet minister

Pansy Wong is set to stand down as a Cabinet minister over the use of the parliamentary travel perk for her husband, Sammy. John Key is understood to be making a statement shortly.