Jacinda Ardern is thinking of standing in Mt Albert as MP David Shearer looks set to quit Parliament.

The public's reaction to Labour MP David Shearer's resignation from Parliament has so far been overwhelmingly supportive this morning.

Labour leader Andrew Little hopes to avoid a byelection, and to have an early general election instead, following David Shearer's resignation.

Exclusive: Labour MP David Shearer is poised to resign from Parliament to take up the tough job of leading the United Nations' mission in war-torn South Sudan.

New Zealand tried and failed to get a truce in Aleppo.

New Zealand is leading a bid to get UN Security Council members to agree to resumption of a ceasefire in Syria.

The trend against globalisation is a western phenomenon, not matched in developing economies, a visiting expert says.

NZ's foreign minister is making one last push to get a Security Council resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

New Zealand's offer to resettle 150 refugees from Australia remains on the table, the Government says, despite a new offer by the

Donald Trump has promised that as president he will honour the pledge stitched into his white and red baseball caps: Make America Great Again.

A former soldier who defrauded people out of thousands of pounds by pretending to be a decorated war veteran with cancer has been jailed for 16 months.

The Government spent hundreds of thousands on Helen Clark's UN bid, including fees for Washington lobbyists.

The United Nations have said that at least 239 migrants have drowned this week in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya.

A month after Hurricane Matthew blasted through southwestern Haiti, at least 800,000 people need food urgently.

Castration and stoning are among the most extreme forms of punishment carried out in parts of the world. WARNING: Graphic.

UN move to show support for empowerment of women and girls has backfired.

Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee got a stern rebuke from China when he made the mildest of observations about Beijing's expansionist maritime policy.

They survived Boko Haram, now millions are at risk of starvation. It has been described as one of the world's biggest humanitarian disasters.

New Zealand has accused Syria of telling "blatant lies" about the delivery of humanitarian aid to its own people.

US Secretary of State John Kerry called for the Syrian and Russian governments to face a war-crimes investigation over attacks on civilians in Syria.

There are a number of reasons Antonio Guterres may have been the popular choice.

COMMENT: Helen Clark did not go to ground following her failure this week to secure the job of her dreams, the head of the UN.

COMMENT: Helen Clark's push for the top United Nations job failed through no fault of her own.

The United Nations' next boss is a charismatic, former socialist prime minister who led the UN's refugee agency during one of its most difficult times.

Helen Clark is politically astute enough though to know that she was always going to be an outside choice for the top UN job.

The feeling in Europe was that it would be a "tragedy" if it had not been able to provide the next Secretary-General, said Foreign Minister.

COMMENT: Political editor Audrey Young looks at why Helen Clark's bid to lead the United Nations has failed.

Lawyers and activists in the Philippines fear that drug users who sign up to the government's amnesty end up on so-called "kill lists".

New Zealand has ratified the Paris Agreement, becoming one of the countries to do so before the threshold at which the historic agreement will come into force.

The former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is poised to become the next Secretary General of the United Nations after topping the sixth ballot.