A destructive computer code used to bring down a power grid has sparked fresh fears.

Shocking footage shows bear turn away from trainer and leap into a crowd.

Tourism Industry Aotearoa wants to put candidates under scrutiny.

Spending by tourists on Visa cards was up 12 per cent last year, hitting $2.8 billion.

The town of Pripyat is a model of technology gone catastrophically wrong.

A motorcyclist crashed in to a car when he was distracted by a girl twerking roadside.

Less than 72 hours before he was fatally shot, Denis gave one of his final interviews.

A Russian MP who fled Moscow fearing Putin's secret service has been assassinated.

Diplomat Gerard van Bohemen reflects on the two years he spent on the high-powered UN Security Council.

Stranded on a train track for 2 days, this terrified dog faced certain death. But thanks to her loving companion, Lucy survived the horrifying ordeal.

The deaths of two men, who died on an overnight tramp in the Tararua Ranges, have been referred to the Coroner.

A new mega structure will cover Chernobyl power plant and prevent further radiation spewing from the reactor for at least a century.

Xero spokesperson says staff are "deeply saddened by the loss" of two employees who died during an overnight walk in the Tararua Range.

Tapped phone conversations filled with swearing and codenames were among the most critical pieces of evidence into MH17. Here's what really went on.

Documents of Ukraine's pro-Kremlin party reportedly show payments of $12.7 million earmarked for Donald Trump's campaign chairman.

Helen Clark's bid for the UN Secretary General job has been raised by Foreign Minister Murray McCully during a meeting with his Russian counterpart in Moscow.

Vladimir Putin may have unleashed his worst enemy when Nadia Savchenko was freed from Russian prison.

The former Soviet city of Pripyat, the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, has became an unlikely drawcard for international tourists

The biggest pieces of wreckage have vanished, hauled away to the Netherlands for analysis, and green stalks of grass are poking through the burned ground where the centre section exploded.

A powerful explosion killed a number of firefighters yesterday as they fought to control a blazing fuel depot which had burned through the night outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

Ukraine accused Russia of sponsoring a terrorist attack on a peace march in the city of Kharkiv that left two dead and at least 10 wounded.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called for an international peacekeeping mission in his nation's war-torn east.

Ukraine has appealed to the West to get tough on Russia after separatists it says are militarily backed by Moscow stormed a flashpoint town.

More than 11 months into the crisis he unleashed, Russian President Vladimir Putin remains in charge of the dynamic, seeking to confuse and divide the West as he apparently seeks to create a damaged....

What drives Putin is a grab-bag of emotional motives. His man in Kiev got overthrown, and he doesn't like to lose face, writes Gwynne Dyer.

It was a day of bluster and speeches, but also paralysis over how to end the bloodshed in eastern Ukraine.

Governments increasingly view human rights as "a luxury" they can ill afford, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.

A 46-year-old Ukrainian tank commander says politicians might yet stop the conflict that grips the east of his country, but supplies of arms from the West would bring a quicker result.