Kiwis are being urged not to travel to some areas of Thailand and to be extremely careful in others after martial law was declared across the country.

Prime Minister John Key is due to to meet the President of the United States at the White House next month - but certain things will NOT be on the agenda.

Polls show gamble on Australians accepting pain has failed badly.

In an uncharacteristic step by the North Korean government, officials made a public apology after a building collapse in Pyongyang reportedly killed hundreds of people.

Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan punched a man in a supermarket.

After fighting to save its single currency, the European Union faces a test of political legitimacy when voters in its 28 member states elect a new European Parliament.

A British-born man suspected of masterminding Boko Haram bomb attacks in Nigeria that left 100 people dead became radicalised during his years at a Welsh university.

India's ruling Congress party admitted defeat last night as the Narendra Modi wave washed over the country in a scale few had predicted.

John Key has said he is aware of "some" but not all of the tools used by the GCSB amid fresh questions over an intrusive piece of spyware showcased by the United States' NSA to their Kiwi partners.

John Key needs to front up about the involvement of the GCSB in the National Security Agency's international spies' club, says the internet lobby group.

The use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime against rebel-held areas is resulting in genetically malformed babies, according to doctors.

Is this how NOT to sell a Budget? Australia's Treasurer Joe Hockey was snapped puffing on a cigar, and later dancing in his office before selling A$80b in cuts.

Whether by design or merry happenstance, Finance Minister Bill English will stand to present his maiden surplus today.

The photograph of the two men was nothing less than remarkable.

New documents released by Edward Snowden show New Zealand's GCSB closely enmeshed with some of the most controversial parts of the United States' spying apparatus.

Tonight is make-or-break night for Prime Minister Tony Abbott as his Government reveals its first Budget to a nation that is expecting the worst.

Members of Barack Obama's Secret Service team were repeatedly taken off their job in the middle of 2011.

The volunteer in charge of the polling station was candid about the sort of election he admired.

There's a scary echo in Prime Minister Tony Abbott's ear. As he weathers a storm of anger and protest before Tuesday's Budget - much of it within his own political bloc - he can hear his old familiar mantras repeating.

An extremely rare female deep-water megamouth shark has been caught off the coast of Shizuoka in Japan, in what is believed to be only the 58th known sighting of the animal on record.

More than 170 sharks have been caught and 50 destroyed as part of Australia's controversial culling policy, government figures have revealed.

Monica Lewinsky has broken nearly a decade of silence to say she was "troubled" by Hillary Clinton's impulse to "blame the woman".

President Barack Obama poked fun at the press, his political rivals and his own healthcare policy, as he spoke at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner.