Tens of thousands of New Zealanders will be excluded from Australia's new national disability insurance scheme.

Editorial: Auckland has seldom hosted a more globally important meeting than the negotiations that start today on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.

North Korea said it will launch a long-range rocket in mid-December, a provocative move just eight months after a failed attempt violated a United Nations ban.

The Scots, the Catalans and the Basques tend to see themselves as victims, but nobody else does, writes Gwynne Dyer.

TPP negotiators meet in Auckland this week to further a plan to create jobs and growth.

There was rioting in the streets and parts of Honiara were burning to the ground in protest at the recent elections.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has rejected suggestions that as a lawyer 20 years ago she misled West Australian authorities.

For the past two years a gleeful band of Eurosceptics in the Anglo-US political establishment have been arguing that the euro cannot survive.

Election stalemate and fraud accusations as centre-right party rips itself apart.

The killing of a senior Taleban warlord, blamed for the deaths of four New Zealand soldiers, has been met with shock and sadness by one grieving mother.

New Zealand will not sign a Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement unless it removes tariffs on dairy products and allows the state-owned drug-buying agency to stay.

Washington can move in mysterious ways, but rarely more strangely than now: just why are Republicans so dead set on scuppering Susan Rice?

As John Key wraps up an important Burma visit, he talks to Herald Political Editor Audrey Young about what he's learned and seen.

Prime Minister John Key meets with Aung San Suu Kyi at Naypyitaw which is the capital of the South East Asian nation. Mr Key is the first New Zealand Prime Minister to visit the country.

Burma's Democracy leader, Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has thanked New Zealanders for their support in the democracy movement.

Burma's capital Naypyidaw turned on an extraordinary welcome for Prime Minister John Key's visit - the first by a New Zealand leader.

John Key began the first visit of a New Zealand Prime Minister to Burma literally walking in Barack Obama's footsteps.

Key says no area off limits in trade talks and partners comfortable with NZ's agriculture stance.