Prime Minister John Key will meet outgoing British Prime Minister David Cameron in London next week.

A sex offender could be living next door and you'd never know. Australia's newest Senator says that won't be the case for long.

Joe Biden and Barack Obama rewrite rules on college sexual assaults following the Stanford University rape case.

Malcolm Turnbull has started to court kingmakers as the prospect of a hung parliament looms. Here's the state of play.

For at least the fifth time, Trump's Twitter account had shared a meme from the racist "alt-right" and offered no explanation why.

Today, on NZH Focus, at least 125 people are dead and about 150 wounded after an explosion in Baghdad. Facebook is on the verge of signing a deal with the Maori Language Commission to develop a tool which will translate posts into te reo Maori. Also, a report says a better approach is urgently needed to help school-aged NZers having unprotected sex.

A weakened Australian Prime Minister is likely to be faced with growing Liberal criticism, particularly from backers of Tony Abbott.

Political commentator Laurie Oakes launched a scathing attack on the Aussie PM and predicted "it's going to be a pretty nasty few years" ahead.

This election was meant to be all about cleaning the "crazies" out of the Senate. But the Aussie PM's big power play backfired.

The Australian PM is confident he'll be able to form a Coalition government as the results of the federal election hang in the balance of seven undeclared seats.

COMMENT: Paul Charman argues that Donald Trump's advocacy of torture can only make the world more dangerous.

As voters turn out today, many on reluctant trips to polling booths, the key question will be: Who do they distrust the least?

Editors across the country back a Turnbull Government in times of global uncertainty.

One wants you to think of him as a businessman, not a politician. The other wants you to know he listens to the people.

COMMENT: Democratic wrong turn has shaken both sides and left nation in tailspin.

COMMENT: If Brexit the Musical is ever staged, casting of characters won't be hard given the performances so far of leading players, writes Audrey Young.

US and Chinese online travel sites have reported a jump in queries about UK holidays since Britain voted to leave the European Union.

New Zealanders are being warned not to travel to Turkey after three suicide bombers attacked Istanbul's Ataturk International airport. Patients could soon be able to check their surgeons' safety records before going under the knife.

I went from pretty much not even knowing there was a referendum to a complete three-day bender - or was it four days?

Thousands of children across the country are spending most or all their years of education in a poorly performing school. EU leaders have responded angrily to Nigel Farage attending the European Parliament in its first debate since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union.

Thousands of Jeremy Corbyn supporters protested outside Britain's outside the Houses of Parliament in London yesterday as Labour MPs tried to get rid of their leader.

Hillary Clinton has secured an unlikely but powerful wingwoman. And she's just gone to town on Republican rival Donald Trump.

A new study has found around 20 New Zealand women die each year from breast cancer linked to consuming no more than two alcoholic drinks a day on average. UKIP leader Nigel Farage has apologised for Britain turning its back on New Zealand when it joined the Common Market.

There are concerns for the safety to two 12 year old Christchurch boys who have been missing since yesterday morning. Richard Beven a former Wanaka Lakes Health Centre manager is convicted of stealing 730 thousand dollars.

COMMENT: Where Britain now goes, others will follow. For all those who want to see a better European future, that is an enticing prospect.

If Britain stands to suffer most from its foolish decision last week, the EU could be hurt just as badly if it cannot eject Britain quickly.

COMMENT: Nearly everyone I went to school with in a very working class part of England voted for Leave. Everyone I went to university with voted to Remain.

COMMENT: We witnessed history on Friday when 52 per cent of the voting population of Britain voted to leave the European Union.

The killers of Moko Rangitoheriri are sentenced in the Rotorua District Court today. A New Zealander and 3 Australians who were among seven men kidnapped at gunpoint in southern Nigeria last week have been released.