After just two days in New Delhi it is not hard to see why surveys say Indian business people find their New Zealand counterparts a bit slow.

Fiji police are believed to be interviewing a New Zealand surfing instructor accused of helping with the escape of Fiji's former army chief of staff Lieutenant Colonel Tevita Mara.

Sharon Armstrong, arrested for cocaine trafficking this week, was travelling with multiple IDs, according to reports.

New documents have raised questions over Britain's involvement in the Iraq war.

The New Zealand hi-tech sector is taking a truly 'gung-ho' approach in China.

New Zealand officials are organising for iodine tables to be stockpiled at the nation's embassy in Tokyo.

Japan says crisis stabilised but others say 'worse than Chernobyl'

The Government is urging New Zealanders to consider leaving parts of Japan badly hit by last week's destructive earthquake and tsunami, as well as moving further away from the damaged nuclear power plant on the eastern coast.

MFAT still has "specific concerns" about one New Zealander missing in the affected area of tsunami-ravaged Japan.

All New Zealanders who wanted to leave Libya had now left, Foreign Minister Murray McCully says.

The wave of protests across the Middle East and North Africa don't yet constitute revolution and real democratic change may be decades away, Auckland University associate professor Stephen Hoadley says.

Winston Peters says the Government has pestered him to accept an overseas ambassadorship - to get him out of politics and out of the country.

Has this country ever had a more successful state visitor than Julia Gillard?