Police in Delhi have arrested a New Zealand Sikh community leader over charges including alleged involvement in seditious activities and attempted murder.

Confronted by public protest and fierce congressional questioning, CIA director-designate John Brennan strongly defended the Obama Administration.

For many years Mokhtar Belmokhtar was little more than a footnote in the intelligence reports analysing the increasingly muscular presence of Islamist groups in Saharan Africa.

Canada is investigating a claim by the Algerian Prime Minister that one of its citizens co-ordinated the terrorist raid at the Saharan gas plant.

The thriller Zero Dark Thirty hunted down top spot at the North American box office - and easily won it.

Three weeks before the ceremony and the [Olympic Stadium] was packed with thousands of people all doing things impressively.

The British-Iraqi man killed in last month's quadruple Alps shooting had access to a bank account linked to Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein.

The parents of triplets who died in the Doha mall fire have made an emotional plea for justice after the trial over their deaths was delayed for a third time.

The hearing into the fatal fire at Doha's Villaggio mall which killed 19 people including three Kiwi triplets has been postponed for a third time.

A service to mark today's 10th anniversary of the Bali bombing in which three New Zealanders died was a moving reminder of the tragedy, Foreign Minister Murray McCully says.

As Bali commemorates 10 years since twin bombings killed 202 people, relatives of the dead cling to memories of their loved ones - and vow that terrorism will never win.

The government is monitoring the security situation in Bali, after Indonesian police warned of a plot to attack dignitaries at the 10th anniversary of the bombings.

Former NZ diplomat Warren Searell called Damascus home until the Arab spring made life far too dangerous. This is his story.

The Taleban says NZ troops are easier targets than other Coalition forces.

Misplaced loyalty to a superpower 'ally' is not a good enough reason to stay.

The massacre at a screening of the new Batman film could be interpreted as the inevitable convergence of two troubling strands in American life: Hollywood nihilism and gun culture.