It was a hot day in the chamber and lawmakers had just returned from a heavy lunch.

Airport official has hinted at the identity of a stowaway, who plunged 1000 metres plane.

John Baldock was asleep when the man's body violently plunged into the ground 3 ft away.

Aucklander Andrew McLaren was shot twice in the 2013 Nairobi shopping mall mass shooting.

If Kiwi guilty of terror attack, expert asks: 'Do we want this guy back?'

Arrest comes after terror attack on upscale Nairobi hotel kills 21.

The attack in Kenya shows how increased security can be thwarted.

A luxury hotel in Kenya's capital city has come under attack leaving many dead.

On Lake Victoria the island is smaller than a soccer pitch and home to five hundred.

It's the second time in a week her unusual moves have drawn attention.

A photographer realised there was something hiding in his image of a herd of wildebeest.

'Clear negligence' found in transfer of endangered species.

The eight rhinos were moved to Tsavo East National Park to help protect the species.

Ruling is rare rejection of police testimony and raises hope other cases can be resolved.

"We have recovered 27 bodies and many people are missing. It is a disaster."

Kenya's use of forced exams to test whether men have had gay sex ruled unlawful.

Hundreds of Kenyan doctors have gone on strike over the suspension of surgical team.

Neurosurgeon opened a patient's skull to remove a blood clot. Only, there wasn't one.

Francis Strange's family thought he had been dead 30 years.

Polling stations in opposition strongholds shuttered, youths burned street barricades.

About 15 people are missing after a seven-storey building collapsed in Nairobi.

The ultimate school field trip enchants Charmaine Noronha in the Maasai Mara.

A deal to allow for 14 flights a week to Colombia has been signed and more agreements are in the pipeline.

More than 80 patients, wearing their hospital-issued uniforms, climbed over the hospital walls and ran on to one of Kenya's busiest highways after the nurses went on strike.

A husband who suspected his wife was cheating on him used a 'voodoo curse' to catch the adulterous couple in the act.

Kenyans thought they could keep a wildlife refuge in the city. Now it's becoming a problem.

He's worth just under a billion dollars, and he says NZ's overheated property market is exacerbating social divisions.

Kiwi-born businessman Stephen Jennings has reached an out-of-court settlement in his defamation case against Fairfax for a "substantial" sum.

Obama. We say it all the time. But what does the name mean?

The mountains of East Africa are being dissolved by climate change, Jason Patinkin reports.