Local job seekers are being tricked into helping cyber criminals launder money.

A South Korean navy destroyer has caught up to a supertanker carrying about US$160m of oil believed to have been hijacked by Somali pirates.

A highly organised gang is believed to have escaped with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and jewellery in a string of armed raids across Auckland.

A Hamilton man now facing burglary charges told businesses he was robbing he was after a job if he was confronted, say police.

Cheapskate backpackers have forced a Queenstown supermarket to introduce a ticketing system for buying Bluff oysters.

Two men held a knife to a taxi driver's throat before pushing him out of his cab and driving off - for $30 in coins.

A masked gang armed with machine guns and pistols have staged a spectacular robbery at a Swiss casino.

An armed robber ordered customers to the floor while an accomplice fled with a "substantial amount" of cash from a bank yesterday.

A shop assistant was held at gunpoint last night - prompting the widow of a slain liquor store owner to call for imitation firearms to be banned from sale.

The wife of the $18 million ASB fraudster has spoken of her pain as other family lash out at the big-spending criminal.

The ASB bank investment adviser who stole $17.8m charged his parents interest on a loan to move into a retirement home - then asked for the money back when his fraud was discovered.