After getting tired of the US election, four Kiwis took it upon themselves to create a Donald Trump video game.

Talk about a Don-sized foot-in-mouth speech. Things quickly got awkward when the famous boxing promoter took to the stage to introduce Trump.

A "non-techie" Twitter sleuth with 3,000 followers has just caused Hillary Clinton's campaign a new headache.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are now tied in the race for the White House, with Clinton's poll ratings falling following her near-collapse.

Watch NZH Focus: Liam Malone storms ahead to win his second gold of the Paralympics in the the Men's 400m T44 in Rio. Prince Charles honours thousands of soldiers from New Zealand and other Pacific islands killed 100 years at Battle of the Somme. And Hillary Clinton returns to the campaign trail after a bout of pneumonia that side-lined her for three days.

Watch NZH Focus: Leaked emails show the former US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s contempt for both major presidential candidates. Two trucks carrying aid from Turkey have arrived in the northern Syrian town of Jarablus. And the European Space Agency says its mission to chart more than 1 billion stars is on track.

Watch NZH Focus: Donald Trump launches an attack on Hillary Clinton saying “ You cannot run for President if you have such contempt in your heart for the American voter and she does”. The former British PM, David Cameron is standing down as a member of Parliament immediately, triggering a by-election. And North Korea is ready to conduct another nuclear test at any time, that’s according to the South Korea's Defence Ministry.

Watch NZH Focus: Hillary Clinton's personal doctor has revealed that the Democratic presidential nominee was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday.

Watch NZH focus - Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton was unwell and seen "fainting" at a ceremony to mark the 15th anniversary of 9/11. At least 90 people are dead after airstrikes continued to rain in north-western Syria. And hundreds of firefighters are battling to contain wildfires on the northern Greek island of Thassos.

Watch NZH Focus: President Barack Obama says Republican Donald Trump isn't qualified to be president and "every time he speaks that opinion is confirmed. Actress and UN Special Envoy Angelina Jolie attends a UN peacekeeping conference in London. And Turkey suspends more than 11 thousand teachers over their suspected links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party.

Watch NZH Focus: Mother Teresa of Calcutta, has been declared a saint by Pope Francis just 19 years after her death. Donald Trump has closed the gap with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, as he consolidates support among his party’s likely voters in recent weeks. And Disney, Universal and SeaWorld are now providing free mosquito repellent as the Zika virus continues to be found in parts of Miami.

Watch NZH Focus: A New Jersey Transit police officer is being hailed as a hero for pulling a man from train tracks. More than three thousand migrants and refugees, mostly from Eritrea, have been rescued from the from the Mediterranean Sea. Apple is being sued by owners of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones who say a design defect causes the phones' touchscreens to become unusable.

Watch NZH Focus: Hundreds of aftershocks continue to rock central Italy, hampering search efforts following Wednesday’s deadly earthquake. And WikiLeaks plan to release "significant" information about Hillary Clinton before the November election. Also Dwayne Johnson becomes the highest-paid actor with a fast and furious income of nearly 88 million dollars.

Donald Trump outscores Adolf Hitler on a test used to determine psychopathic traits, a researcher at Oxford University has found.

Prepare yourself for Trump 2.0. He's the Clinton-bashing "street fighter" Donald Trump has enlisted to save his run for president.

Big data analytics is helping businesses and governments to make strategic, well-informed decisions.

Patti Davis, the daughter of ex-US President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan, slams Donald Trump in a Facebook post.

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From banning all Muslims to building a wall along the Mexican border - Trump's presidential campaign has provided shocking and controversial moments aplenty.

10 new cases of Zika in Florida prompt health officials to advise pregnant women to avoid an area just north of downtown Miami. A Russian military helicopter is shot down in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province killing all five people on board. More than 1,000 migrants are rescued off the coast of Libya by the Italian coastguard.

Watch NZH Focus: The parents of a Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq have said Donald Trump has a “black soul” and is unfit for the White House.

Watch NZH Focus: Donald Trump's coming under renewed attack, from the family of a Muslim US soldier who was killed in Iraq. A memorial service has been held at Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral for the elderly priest who was murdered on his altar in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray last Tuesday. Poland's Catholic faithful have bid farewell to Pope Francis as the pontiff concluded his five-day visit to the country

Watch NZH Focus: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pledged to do "everything humanly possible" to keep Germany safe following a string of attacks including two carried out by asylum-seekers. At least 77 people have died and several are missing in floods and landslides in Nepal. Donald Trump now he says he was joking when he ¬challenged Russia to hack into her emails

The GOP convened in a country under siege, but Dems are spreading a sunnier message.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has appealed to Russia to uncover and release thousands of emails that Hillary Clinton did not hand over to U.S. officials as part of a probe into the use of her private email system. Pope Francis says that a string of recent attacks, including the murder of a priest in France, was proof that the "world is at war".

Former President Bill Clinton is the key speaker on Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

Watch NZH focus: A 84-year-old priest in northern France has been killed and four other people were taken hostage by two armed men who stormed his church. A Kiwi has smashed the world sheep shearing record in England, Matt Smith, averaged 81 sheep an hour. And Pokemon takes India by storm.

Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders have spoken at the first day of the Democratic National Convention offering up their support of Hillary Clinton.

Watch NZH Focus: A boy has been pulled from the rubble of a building destroyed by bombs in the rebel-held Aleppo neighbourhood of Mashhad. A record number of condoms will be given to athletes as they arrive at the Olympic village in Rio.

Donald Trump says France and Germany have "totally" been compromised by terrorism and their citizens should receive "extreme vetting" before entering the US.