A Christchurch teenager made a false rape complaint because she liked the attention, a court has heard.

A woman given 250 hours of community service after attempting to kidnap a baby has twice admitted to not doing the work.

A gang member is accused of kidnapping and raping a woman who says she was able to escape after drugging his coffee with codeine.

Two women have been jailed after they forced an 82-year-old to drive around in her own car and used her bank card to get cash.

A South Korean navy destroyer has caught up to a supertanker carrying about US$160m of oil believed to have been hijacked by Somali pirates.

A customer who ran up a $5500 drug debt was kidnapped, beaten and forced to hand over his car by the "heavies" employed to collect the money.

There has been an attempted abduction of two young girls from Hill Park school in Manurewa, in south Auckland, this morning.

Ten missionaries facing trial for trying to take a busload of children out of Haiti could be released from jail.