A comprehensive report paints a pessimistic picture of the threat the world faces.

NZ-US areas of co-operation include climate change, fisheries and humanitarian aid.

North Korea continues to build its nuclear weapons programme.

North Korea has been secretly training elite special forces to kidnap Westerners.

Kim Jong Un showed off ballistic missiles at a celebration of North Korea's founder.

Russian president Vladimir Putin is meeting with Rex Tillerson, the US Secretary of State.

Drama captain Elsie Spiers wins UN competition in Bay while Olivia Temm places third.

Nine people are said to have been killed in the US airstrike.

Graphic shows which countries are siding with Russia or the US, after Syrian airstrikes.

COMMENT: Just what President Trump means by his plea to "join us" is unknown.

Full transcript of an address by US President Donald Trump about the Syria air strikes.

COMMENT: A giant waste of taxpayers' dosh or money well spent?

Kidnap of Fijian peacekeepers had a big impact on McCully's decision on NZ contribution.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully outlined the approach in a foreign affairs address.

Managing NZ's complex relationship with China has been a key preoccupation for McCully.

Iraqi government forces halted the fight for Mosul yesterday.

United Nations report appears to back claims SAS troops killed civilians in Afghani raid.

Water consumption down, but still above the target.

COMMENT: It's been six years since war broke out in Syria and it shows no signs of ending.

A Kiwi scientist meeting in Brazil with world climate experts discusses a new report assessing what an extra 1.5C of warming would mean for the planet.

North Korea has rejected an autopsy finding that nerve agent killed Kim Jong Nam.

Labour has opted for NZ First over the Greens in its nomination to the committee which oversees New Zealand's spies.

Ardern recorded a thumping victory that will further raise her profile in election year.

Kim Jong Nam led a life of loneliness and fear and seclusion, rejected by his father, orphaned by his mother, stuck in a shadowy exile.

Jacinda Ardern has taken an unassailable lead in the Mt Albert by-election.

There was a break-in at the hospital morgue where Kim Jong Nam's body is being held.

Joyce Luma, head of the United Nation's World Food Programme in South Sudan, called the famine "man-made".

Helen Clark described as a reformer as she seeks high-profile aid job.

President Donald Trump has declared war on his own intelligence agencies over "un-American" and scandalous leaks.

Police have arrested one of the women suspected over the death of Kim Jong-un's brother, as North Korea objects to an autopsy being performed.