COMMENT: Politics throws up some strange bedfellows and that's certainly the case with Helen Clark and John Key.

Donald Trump's threat to seat a woman who had an affair with Bill Clinton at tomorrow's debate could raise his own history of infidelity.

For a moment there, it seemed that Hillary Clinton had lost the Kim Kardashian vote.

Helen Clark faces her fifth Security Council ballot Tuesday to choose the next UN Secretary General , amid rumours that another contender is set to join the contest.

There's a new last minute complication for Clinton as she prepares to face Trump.

Professor Allan Lichtman, who has correctly predicted every presidential election since 1984, is pretty sure who will win on Nov. 8.

Prime Minister John Key reflects on his big week at the United Nations.

A stunned Hillary Clinton is asked, "What happens if you become pregnant?" during wayward interview.

Syria's UN ambassador, Bashar Ja'afari, slammed the United States at the special Security Council meeting.

Many New Zealanders might wonder why we bother with the UN, until they hear Key lament the council's performance on Syria in his speech.

Prime Minister John Key has used his speech to the United Nations General Assembly to campaign for Helen Clark to become next UN Secretary-General, saying she was a "natural leader".

John Key's session chairing UN Security Council on Syria crisis has a heightened significance after the bombing of a UN convoy delivering aid near Aleppo.

John Key and Helen Clark are stepping up their sales pitch to advance Clark as a strong and independent candidate for United Nations Secretary-General.

COMMENT: John Key is set to land in the centre of a diplomatic crisis between the US and Russia during leaders' week at the UN over the truce in Syria.

The Republican presidential nominee's daughter, became irritated with the "negativity" in a reporter's questions and abruptly ended a interview.

A hack blamed on Russia has revealed former Secretary of State Colin Powell's views on Trump, Clinton, his colleagues and the Iraq war.

Experts have warned a last-minute attack on Hillary Clinton could completely derail her campaign moments before the US election day.

Watch NZH Focus: Leaked emails show the former US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s contempt for both major presidential candidates. Two trucks carrying aid from Turkey have arrived in the northern Syrian town of Jarablus. And the European Space Agency says its mission to chart more than 1 billion stars is on track.

Clinton cancelled two days of campaigning, inserting new speculation about her health into a campaign in which Trump has called her weak and unfit.

Hillary Clinton has stumbled, verbally and physically, in the past few days.

COMMENT: The truth is we're all more Donald than we would like to be. But how many Trump traits do you have?

Foreign Minister Murray McCully says NZ is concerned about any human rights breaches or attempts to stifle political debate in Fiji.

COMMENT: There's a headline I wish would appear in newspapers across America. It would say something like, "TPP allies back big deal with China".

COMMENT: Spend any length of time in the US and you realise that the Star-Spangled Banner is not an anthem to be dishonoured lightly.

NZ to convene a meeting of the Security Council to discuss North Korea's fifth nuclear test, described by Foreign Minister Murray McCully as a threat to regional security.

Watch NZH Focus: President Barack Obama says Republican Donald Trump isn't qualified to be president and "every time he speaks that opinion is confirmed. Actress and UN Special Envoy Angelina Jolie attends a UN peacekeeping conference in London. And Turkey suspends more than 11 thousand teachers over their suspected links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party.

Comment: What has the so-called 'War on Terror' achieved a decade and a half after 9/11?

COMMENT: The word on the streets is that Islamic State (Isis or Isil to its many enemies) is going under.

Watch NZH Focus: As the ASEAN meeting gets underway in Laos, Prime ministers John Key and Malcolm Turnbull have publicly declared their status as “Best Friends Forever”. Police in Paris arrest a man after his car was found near the Notre Dame Cathedral with seven gas cylinders inside. and The inclusion of a fit-again Ryan Crotty at second five is the only change to the All Blacks starting fifteen to face Argentina on Saturday.

The last thing Auckland needs is a mayor elected on a mandate to pursue a needless extravagance for no better reason than he or she promised it.