Donald Trump could award some of his closest campaign advisers with big league jobs in his cabinet come January.

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.

Minister Anne Tolley says the UN Rights of the Child committee in Geneva asked her 250 questions but only one on child poverty.

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.

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.

Helen Clark will face her sixth ballot early tomorrow in her bid to become UN Secretary General but it will be the first one in which the permanent five will vote with a red ballot.

John Key has signalled a rapid and unexpected rise in interest rates and "something big that happens internationally" as the biggest threats to the NZ economy.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte says he would like to "slaughter" millions of addicts just like Adolf Hitler "massacred" millions of Jewish people.

Health authorities are considering plans to move mental health patient Ashley Peacock, to the dismay of his parents.

Helen Clark to continue campaign despite a drop in the latest straw poll for Secretary General of the UN.

COMMENT: Politics throws up some strange bedfellows and that's certainly the case with Helen Clark and John Key.

Helen Clark faces her fifth Security Council ballot Tuesday to choose the next UN Secretary General , amid rumours that another contender is set to join the contest.

On a clear afternoon last Monday a line of humanitarian aid trucks eased to a stop in front of a cluster of warehouses packed with aid supplies 24km outside the Syrian city of Aleppo.

Prime Minister John Key reflects on his big week at the United Nations.