COMMENT: According to the person who may well be the next leader of the free world, the only things that would survive nuclear war are cockroaches and Helen Clark.

Donald Trump said in an interview this week that he was prepared to meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Here's six reasons why it is a bad idea.

Today - An award-winning journalist in who moved into a house of addicts to research drug abuse ended up an addict himself and wild weather across the is battering the country. Also a major doping crackdown in sport, 31 athletes in 6 sports could be barred from the Rio Olympics.

Melania Trump calls TV anchor's ogling of her "unbelievable", says the Clintons did not get her a wedding gift and recounts the time Jacko tried to make out with her.

COMMENT: Although these three races are captivating, the most important is for the presidency of the most powerful country on Earth, writes Alexander Gillespie.

Desperate anti-Trump Republicans seek a third-party challenger but keep hearing "no".

Michel Temer, is a career politician with a reputation as a skilled negotiator and smooth behind-the-scenes operator.

The constant spotlight fixed on Donald Trump for the last year would have overwhelmed any other candidate, particularly one so evasive. But not him.

Today - The man accused of killing his ex-partner Pakeeza Yusuf and her three-year-old daughter Juwairiyah Kalim has been found guilty. Te Puia is set to get $2.5m from the Tourism Growth Partnership fund for new facilities and Donald Trump’s butler of 30 years says he wants to kill Obama.

COMMENT: Trump may be a sinister clown, but he has unleashed a potent strain of resentment among millions of voters who feel cheated by political elites.

COMMENT: Showing leadership on this issue, and working with states in the region, will lead to stronger relationships across the board. That has to be in NZ's wider public interest, writes Michael Timmins..

Over 15 years, radio shock jock Howard Stern and Donald Trump periodically carried on like towel-snapping "bros" in a locker room, rating women's tops and bottoms.

In London tomorrow Police Minister Judith Collins will represent the Prime Minister at the London Anti-Corruption Summit.

The election of a candidate of Islamic Pakistani extraction as mayor of London is a proud moment for Britain and inclusion of minorities in its politics.

This man jokes about wanting to gang-rape a woman and vows to kill all drug addicts. And he just won power

It's a key part of his campaign, which he's used to attack Hillary Clinton. But evidence suggests Trump has bent the truth here.

COMMENT: Washington's political elites say it'll never happen, he'll never take the White House, writes Heather du Plessis-Allan.

The Rolling Stones don't want Donald Trump playing their songs. Travis M. Andrews looks at similar cases and what the law says.

COMMENT: Seriously, it's entertainment. For Trump and his supporters, it's entertainment. The presidency will be entertainment for him and them.

COMMENT: We're venturing into the unknown. There have been demagogues in American politics before, but none became a major party's presidential candidate.

Australia's Labor party has accused PM Malcolm Turnbull of incompetence after he admitted his 10-year tax plan had not been costed by Treasury.

Donald Trump now faces the arduous task of coalescing a Republican party deeply divided over his toxic brand of politics.

This was supposed to be the pragmatic Midwestern state that would deny Trump the delegates he needs to secure the Republican presidential nomination.

Looking back on the 2016 presidential field, there was no candidate who seemed to hold as much potential or engender as much excitement as Marco Rubio.

In NZ Herald Focus today - the latest from our Rugby league writer Michael Burgess who's in Sydney ahead Warriors game on Friday and Leicester City are crowned English Premier League champions for the first time in their 132 year history. Also we look at why thousands of children begin secondary school each year without the skills needed to make it through.

COMMENT: The possibility of a majority of British voting for absolute sovereignty in their referendum has many people worried.

For many in Britain, the scandal is part of a wider problem for Labour's left wing.

Congressional Republicans are beginning to accept, and even embrace, an outcome that was once unthinkable: Donald Trump as the GOP presidential nominee.

Donald Trump used a major speech to lay out an "America first" foreign policy that would force Nato allies to contribute more to their own defence.