Most of the jobs were offering low pay and many had unsociable hours, but the applicants turned up in their thousands.

Claims of racial tension and unruly behaviour at the Australian Tennis Open have once again taken the gloss off one of the game's most anticipated tournaments, claim Australian news media.

A rise in P-related crime, and criminals' increased use of guns, has lead to armed officers routinely accompanying general-duties police to call-outs.

Housing New Zealand is putting tenants who manufacture the drug P in state houses on notice.

A clandestine meth lab found on one of the country's poshest streets shows the drug can make its way into all communities, street resident and Auckland City Mayor John Banks says.

Two men and one woman will face drug-related charges after the discovery of a P-lab on one of Auckland's most elite streets.

Cliff Robinson has a message for Health Minister Tony Ryall: "Show some sense and good grace and give us our due."

Homophobia is on rise in Uganda as the government seeks an Anti-Homosexuality Bill and the minister for ethics and integrity insists that it will be every citizen's duty under new laws to denounce anyone they suspect of being gay.

An ACC staff member emailed a recent widow saying: "Just so you know ... I am not God and therefore I do not determine when people live or die".

An Asperger’s sufferer in England who plotted to kill his parents was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order yesterday, despite a letter from his mother and father asking the judge for leniency for their son.

Details that have been emerging on Northern Ireland's 'first couple of politics' have the country aghast.

Britain's one-time youngest ever lottery winner has been found in the isolated bungalow where he lived alone.