Actor Hugh Jackman is calling on world leaders to make progress in climate change talks in New York this week.

This morning's match-fixing revelation involving bowls is just the latest in a long and chequered history of match-fixing scandals in sport.

Jimmy Carter's suggestion that most opposition to Barack Obama and his policies was due to racism has sparked heated debate in the US.

John Key will sell NZ to the worldwide tourism market when he appears on the Late Show with David Letterman next month.

In light of the Black Eyed Peas' record-breaking run on Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart we look at other acts who've had long runs at the top.

The acting head judge of the Family Court has called for gay and lesbian couples to be given rights to adopt children.

Protests over scheme offering financial incentives for men to marry widows.

The Government has set a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target of between 10 per cent and 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.

Government has announced that New Zealand's new target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions will be a reduction of between 10 per cent and 20 per cent by 2020.

Scientist Sir David King says carbon dioxide emissions need to be halved by the middle of the century.