Kiwi business people will have to be smart. Australia, for instance, is now facing strong competition in the hard commodities space from Africa.

Editorial: During her 11 years in power and up to the time of her death, Margaret Thatcher divided the British people as few leaders before her.

Margaret Thatcher was the woman who began the shift to the right that has affected almost all the countries of the West in the past three decades.

The Margaret-Denis partnership was always the key relationship in the Thatcher family.

The fracas over President Barack Obama's decision to call California's top law enforcement officer "the best-looking attorney-general in the country" refuses to go away.

Republican lawmakers have asked for an investigation into Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z's visit to Cuba for their wedding anniversary.

Bill Gates may be only the second richest man in the world, with a net worth of US$67 billion ($79.7 billion), but he is assuredly the most generous.

Radicals both right and left are sensing that France's political tide is rising in their favour, driven by a President plumbing record unpopularity less than a year after taking office.

Each time it makes a threatening gesture to its sister in the south, the US and China respond like different parents. But a sibling often knows a troubled child better than either parent, says John Roughan.

The North Korea security crisis will be high on tomorrow's agenda when Prime Minister John Key meets new President of China Xi Jinping on the Chinese tropical island of Hainan, at the Boao Forum for Asia.

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, will launch a scathing attack on churches and charities that oppose the Government's welfare cuts.

Naomi Long Naomi Long, Westminster MP for east Belfast, is very much a child of her constituency, born into its loyalist backstreets and a committed community worker.

Geo-politically, socially, environmentally, economically, financially and spiritually, the world and state of human affairs is in a state of unparalleled flux and change.

The advice from the front office at East Side High in Cleveland, Mississippi, is clear

The Princess of Wales pub in Pyla looks as if it has been flatpacked and flown in from a town in the UK, complete with British pensioners who tuck into roast beef.

At first blush the actions of the euro area in seeking to impose a levy on ordinary Cypriot bank depositors made no sense, writes David Mayes.

His upbeat oratory reflected his country's innate optimism, despite the turbulence of the times.

The deaths of two more asylum seekers off Australia's Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island has again focused attention on the complexity of the dangerous crossing.

Prisoner X, the Mossad agent who hanged himself in Israel's highest security prison two years ago, was the country's "biggest traitor" according to a new investigation.

Julia Gillard has elevated two key supporters to the Cabinet, expanded the jobs of three frontbenchers and made four new ministers after a "self-indulgent" leadership dispute.

Boris Johnson's past troubles finally returned to haunt him yesterday when he gave what senior Conservatives called a "car crash" television interview which they said had dented his hopes of becoming Conservative Party leader.

The changing climate will increase security threats to Australia, including the possible collapse of fragile states in the region and resource wars, a new report has warned.

Cyprus has secured a package of rescue loans in tense, last-ditch negotiations, two EU diplomats said, saving the country from a banking system collapse and bankruptcy.

According to Oxfam, nearly 750,000 people die each year from firearm-related violence.

Will investors keep their money in Cyprus? Or will they trigger a banking collapse and the first ejection from the euro?

Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith supports Anthony Albanese remaining in the Cabinet in the post-leadership ructions reshuffle.

The bats are loose in the parliamentary belfry. But then came the shenanigans from across the ditch, says Kerre McIvor.