'He gave his life in the process. But his sacrifice saved lives.'

"Run, hide, fight," was the message distributed by the university.

A new ranking of NZ secondary schools places St Cuthbert's College first.

Trump's profound corruption is not in question, writes Paul Waldman.

The animal was shot and killed after it attacked the worker in an enclosure.

Mum and baby first reported victims after tree falls on house in North Carolina.

A mother and her baby are first victims as Hurricane Florence pummels the US east coast.

Mark D'Amico taken into custody but police stress it isn't to do with Johnny Bobbitt.

The last category 4 hurricane to hit the Carolinas was in 1954.

Rebecca Zeni was completely dependent on nursing home staff. They left her to suffer.

Twenty-two people have fallen ill with salmonella linked to an egg farm in North Carolina.

A world-class Kiwi kayaker has died in an accident on a North Carolina river.

Arrest made after man killed in North Carolina town while he was on Facebook Live.

Auto mechanic charged with impersonating a three-star US army general to impress a woman.

Jefferson Heavner was helping people stuck in a snowstorm when he was shot and killed.

Scraps of paper from Blackbeard's ship show that at least some pirates were literate.

Man thought he saw trees sticking out of frozen swamp. Then he saw teeth.

A water is being sued after a woman contracted a brain-eating amoeba.

Eric Trump allegedly told golf writer "we have all the funding we need out of Russia."

Family speak of loss after boy suffers fatal head injury.

Cathay Pacific has taken a stake in a company producing bio fuel out of city waste.

A heartbreaking video shows the moment a widow met her US Army veteran husband's coffin on the airport tarmac, leaving a plane full of passengers in tears.

A North Carolina mother who works at the same day care centre caught another worker breastfeeding her 3-month-old son without permission.

Grace Packer became a foster child at age 3. At age 14, she suffered a slow and painful death at the hands of those she was meant to trust.

North Carolina's Republican-controlled legislature has rejected a bid to repeal a state law restricting bathroom access for transgender people.

Dylann Roof wanted the world to know he hated black people and thought they were criminals. But he surprised himself with the scale of his church massacre

A man who was hired to portray Santa as resigned from the position, after fat-shaming a boy who visited him during a photo event last weekend.

It could be a scene from Bad Santa. A nine-year-old boy says a St Nick in the US told him to "lay off the burgers".

A 15 year old boy is suing his abusive foster parents who tortured him with wires and broke his fingers with pliers.