NZ winning a seat on the UN Security Council 'proves small countries have a role to play' says the Prime Minister, as his Foreign Minister expresses relief.

If New Zealand becomes a member of the UN Security Council early tomorrow, hoping to get a pay-off for the hundreds of thousands of dollars in schmoozing we've done to get there, let us see how much of an independent voice we will retain.

PM John Key appears to have been misinformed by the Defence Force about the nature of a Washington meeting of the United States-led coalition to defeat Islamic State.

NZ's national threat level in response to risk posed by foreign fighters and Isis has risen and John Key says the Govt will advance ''urgent'' law changes in response..

Ed Miliband has moved to contain rising panic over the right-wing UK Independence Party's threat to Labour in Britain by pledging a raft of hard-headed measures to ensure that migrants "earn the right" to state benefits and face stiff English language tes

Prime Minister John Key is considering NZ's role in the fight against Isis, and has been accused of scaremongering.

Three of North Korea's senior officials travelled to South Korea at the weekend for the first time in five years.

Pro-democracy protesters are continuing demonstrations in Hong Kong, with riot police responding with tear gas. What set it all off?

Britain's Sunday Mirror is under pressure to explain the details of its Twitter sting where it used a fake 'PR girl' to engage tweets from a Tory MP - who sent her graphic pics.

British Conservative MP Brooks Newmark has said he has been “a complete fool” following a sex scandal that forced him to resign as a government minister.

It is just as well Sarah Palin was not elected vice president of the US – otherwise she would have doubtless got lost on her way to work.

RAF jets were unleashed above Iraq as Britain threw its military might behind a US-led air war against the Isis (Islamic State) terror group.

British Prime Minister David Cameron was plunged into a double crisis after one of his ministers resigned over a sex scandal and another MP defected to Ukip.

Private information stored online by European computer users could be scrutinised by American law enforcement agencies.

The Catalan leader, Artur Mas, formally called a November referendum on independence yesterday, in a show of defiance that puts the northeast region on a collision course.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is the one figure uniting US religious conservatives frustrated by a leaderless Republican Party that's divided over foreign policy, immigration and social issues.

The daughter of the British hostage murdered by Isis militants has spoken out against the terrorist organisation that has ravaged Iraq and Syria, saying it needs to be eradicated.

Britain could join air strikes in Iraq by the weekend after Prime Minister David Cameron set the country on the path to war.

Victoria's Islamic community has received threats less than 24 hours after a Muslim youth stabbed two police officers and was shot dead.

British Prime Minister David Cameron was today trying to placate Conservative MPs who are threatening to scupper further devolution for Scotland unless he curbs the voting rights of Scottish MPs at Westminster.

Frank Bainimarama, the man who twice seized power in Fiji through military coup, is officially now its elected prime minister.

Controversial senator equates sharia law with acts of terrorism in a much-criticised television interview.

Jacqui Lambie, the straight-talking, combative Tasmanian, is shaking up federal politics and injecting a breath of the real world into Canberra.

Labour has launched a ferocious fightback against Tory (Conservative) attempts to link the timetable for Scottish devolution to far-reaching constitutional reform in England, insisting that....

Three people were arrested after pro-independence and union supporters clashed in Scotland.