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

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.

John Key has told his Japanese hosts at Apec that NZ only wants Japan at talks on a regional free trade agreement if agriculture is on the table.