President Donald Trump opened his first appearance at the National Prayer Breakfast with a prayer for Arnold Schwarzenegger's television ratings

New Zealand scientists have voiced fears over the new US administration, with one independent association arguing efforts to get more science in society had veered toward "street warfare".

A statement from the Trump administration called Iran's missile launch 'provocative', but did not outline any actions it intends to take.

A son has published heart-wrenching video filmed with his mother, who has dementia, as she forgets who he is for the first time.

Billionaire Peter Thiel claimed in a citizenship application that if his unusual request was granted he would tell the world he was a New Zealander.

Charlotte Zaremba was killed in her bedroom in the early hours of New Year's Day by a Maryland high school classmate. Her parents tried to save her life.

The Prince of Wales has warned the world is in danger of "forgetting the lessons of the past" in a speech about the Holocaust.

US Embassy confirms NZ dual citizens excluded from travel ban.

It was a chilling prediction issued as part of a propaganda video intended to fuel hatred between Muslims and the West.

The number of unprovoked shark attacks across the world fell last year, in the wake of a record figure in 2015 that scientists partly put down to warmers waters created by a strong El Nino system.

US President Trump and Russian President Vladi­mir Putin discuss coordinating on ISIS and Syria, Kremlin says.

Nearly two thirds of women would pop a female 'Viagra' to boost their sex life - and some want the effects to last for more than 24 hours

President Trump's first week in office has been marked by two things: Controversy, and executive orders.

Cocaine, more so than any other narcotic, is the drug most frequently interdicted by the US Coast Guard.

Over a year the 27-year-old teacher paid more than $28k - unwittingly, to the 14-year-old she was sleeping with.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May is the first foreign leader to visit the Trump White House and it seems that Trump is going to be very hands on.

COMMENT: Peter Thiel makes for good copy, but the nub of the issue over his freshly revealed citizenship is straightforward: How'd he get it?

US President Donald Trump wants a new 20 per cent tax on all imports from Mexico to pay for a wall on the southern US border.

Politics sure makes for strange bedfellows. Donald Trump has slammed Chelsea Manning as an "ungrateful traitor" for criticising Barack Obama.

Since Donald Trump took office, initiation fees at Mar-a-Lago have doubled to US$200,000.

Tess Nichol is all the richer for spotting a humpback whale and witnessing swooping bald eagles at an exclusive resort in British Columbia.

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A woman took shelter in a bathtub and the tornado lifted the tub out of the home and deposited it in the woods - she still survived.

A man in Manhattan took hiding money under the mattress to the extreme

There's a strange side to one of the country's wealthiest citizens.

Donald Trump took steps to advance construction of the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines.

Pictures of Trump signing the executive order show him surrounded by his new cabinet - a bunch of men.

There are just 315 scientologists in NZ, yet the church, which was established here more than 60 years ago, has just opened a new $16 million base.

An Opotiki doctor is traveling to America to research how technology is changing rural healthcare in New Zealand. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

A selection of Hollywood hot spots that will transport you to the colourful movie's world.

The most expensive home ever listed in the US has just hit the market in Bel Air, LA at a whopping US$250m.