The woman at the centre of a diplomatic incident and the victim of an alleged attack says Foreign Minister Murray McCully should resign.

The Malaysian Government has given an assurance that the military warrant officer alleged to have committed burglary and sexual assault will be sent back to New Zealand.

Malaysian officials are silent over when diplomat Warrant Officer 2 Muhammad Rizalman Ismail will be returned to NZ to face burglary and sexual assault charges.

The return of a Malaysian diplomat to NZ to face a sex charge seems far from certain, as his doctors last night warned he may not be well enough to travel.

The more that emerges in the story we broke last Sunday the more disturbing it becomes that diplomatic immunity should be so badly handled.

The Malaysian diplomatic aide accused of burglary and intent to rape could be sent back to New Zealand without diplomatic immunity as early as Monday.

A leading law specialist says a Malaysian diplomatic accused of sex crime could - if convicted - do his time back home in Malaysia.

The Malaysian diplomat Muhammad Rizalman bin Ismail facing charges for sexual assault wants his return to New Zealand to be deferred until after Ramadan.

A Malaysian diplomat facing charges will be arrested at the border as soon as he arrives in the country and taken to the nearest court, police say.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs head John Allen offered to resign over his ministry's mishandling of the case of a Malaysian diplomat who left the country after an alleged attempt to rape a Wellington woman.

Malaysia has done the right thing in its surprise announcement tonight that it will send a diplomat and warrant officer back to New Zealand to face sex charges.

The Malaysian Government asked NZ to drop all charges and seal the court record of an official accused of sexual assault, documents released by NZ officials show.

British High Commissioner Vicki Treadell says Britain would not abuse diplomatic immunity because it is there for a good reason.

The Malaysian Government asked New Zealand to drop all charges against a diplomat accused of sexual assault, newly released documents show.

The possibility that missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 became a ghost plane has raised new questions in one of aviation's greatest mysteries.

Countries searching for the missing Malaysian plane have yet to agree on how to share costs, an Australian search leader said.

After a fruitless three-month hunt for flight MH370, Australian authorities have taken the first step towards handing over search operations to a private contractor.

Australia's lead agency during the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airline's jet appears to back US Navy officer's claims 'pings' heard were not from the flight's black boxes.

An expert's claim that the "pings" at the centre of search for flight MH370 did not come from the jet's black boxes is "speculative and premature", a US Navy spokesman says.

The family of MH370 pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah have spoken for the first time in a bid to clear up "untrue" rumours about his involvement in the disappearance.

The introduction of constant tracking of commercial aircraft during the whole journey of missing flight MH370 has been raised by Malaysian authorities in a preliminary report.

An international panel of experts will re-examine all data gathered in the nearly two-month hunt for the missing Malaysian jet.

Mr Monk, whose son Michael was among the 29 miners killed in the Pike River explosion, was reflecting on the agony expressed by Danica Weeks over the fate of her husband Paul, a passenger on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

The task has been described as impossible and only a week ago the world's media were mournfully saying the wreckage of the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 "may never be found".

A new report says the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was 'thrown around like a fighter jet' - flying drastic manoeuvres in a bid to dodge radar.

After a week of optimism over four underwater signals believed to be coming from the missing Malaysian plane the sea has gone quiet.

Fertility Associates, the country's largest fertility services provider, has opened its first clinic in Malaysia.

A final unexplained signal emitted by the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was tracked to the same point in the Indian Ocean at which authorities believe they have found the jet, it can be revealed.