A man who stomped his victim into a coma in a Wanaka store will remain behind bars after a disagreement between psychologists.Ahu Stanley Taylor, 45, was found guilty of attempted murder and is serving a jail term of 10 years and... […]

Police responded to an alleged break-in at a television station in Auckland overnight.Authorities arrived at the Newshub premises on Flower St in Eden Terrace, central Auckland, after reports of a break-in.It is understood the... […]

Faultlines is a partnership with North & South magazine - the full interactive project can be viewed here. If the Alpine Fault line ruptures, the earthquake is expected to be felt everywhere in the country.Over the last 8000... […]

A 12-year-old Dunedin boy accused of stealing eight cars in a little over 24 hours needs to understand the chaos he leaves behind, one of his alleged victims said through tears yesterday.Eight cars were stolen between Monday morning... […]

Police responded to shootings at two more Auckland suburbs overnight, after a night of mayhem around the city.Five incidents were reported by late last night in Papatoetoe, Otara, Flat Bush, Papakura and Te Atatū. DO YOU... […]

In the days before she died Naomi McRae's father Ewen sat by her side, stroking her cheek and arm, the only parts of her body left unscathed after she was hit by a 16-ton truck. The police officer was on her way to work just before... […]

Inmates at one of the country's largest prisons found an inventive way of marking the New Year period - boozing on hand sanitiser. Newstalk ZB can reveal almost a dozen prisoners were charged with misconduct after allegedly getting... […]

OPINION: What do you think of when you think of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland? I asked a South Islander and they suggested the Sky Tower, Rangitoto and traffic jams. Ask an Aucklander and they may tell you about the beaches, art... […]

Joseph Parata Hohepa Hawke (MNZM) was the face of a new resurgence in lifting the way Māori viewed themselves and what they were capable of.The 1970s was an awakening time in Aotearoa for many reasons, like being involved in... […]

Wellington Water has requested $6 million to restore fluoride to residents and upgrade facilities. This is after the water company stopped fluoridation last year at two plants supplying Upper Hutt, Porirua, and Wellington City residents.An... […]

Test your brains with the Herald's morning quiz. Be sure to check back on nzherald.co.nz for the afternoon quiz. To challenge yourself with more quizzes, CLICK HERE. […]

TV presenter Jenny-May Clarkson wants to help kick bowel cancer in the butt because the disease has become personal.The TVNZ broadcaster lost her brother to bowel cancer and is hoping her support for the Move your Butt challenge... […]

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will this morning appear on The Late Show in New York as she winds up the first day of her United States trip.Ardern arrived in New York yesterday afternoon and is spending her first day in a whirlwind... […]

A suburban street in Auckland's Mt Albert has been cordoned off as police investigate a sudden death.Police were called to Alberton Ave just after 7pm. Circumstances of the death remain unclear at this stage, police said. "A person's... […]

Auckland has been rocked by five shootings, including four in one hour, as several homes were hit by a spray of bullets on Tuesday night.A turf war between the Killer Beez and Tribesmen motorcycle gangs has exploded, the Herald... […]

The force with which Cory James Turner threw pre-mixed drinks at his former partner left bruises on her in the shape of the cans. The former Murchison dairy farmer has today gone to prison for 15 months for the episode of terrible... […]

The Royal New Zealand Air Force has found two boats with seven survivors onboard, including an 11-year-child, after they were reported missing near Kiribati. A P-3K2 Orion left Auckland early Monday morning to search for a five-metre... […]

A child-porn addict who downloaded more than 11,000 images of child abuse was grateful he was caught so that he could finally get help. Martin Pickering sat in silence while he was sentenced to four years jail on 11 charges of possessing... […]

The foreign affairs minister is being accused of having no "direct" contact with the New Zealand ambassador to Russia or the Embassy in Moscow since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Gerry Brownlee, National's spokesman for foreign... […]

Police have withdrawn a cruelty to animals charge against a 75-year-old man who allegedly killed a French bulldog by suffocating it on a Taranaki street in plain sight. Cash the French bulldog was allegedly found dead with a plastic... […]

China believes that the new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) should facilitate prosperity, development and economic cooperation rather than undermine and divide existing mechanisms in the Asia-Pacific region, the Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday. […]

German automaker Volkswagen's Chinese joint venture Volkswagen Anhui recently began working on a new project for making new energy vehicle (NEV) parts, with an investment of 130 million yuan (about 19.5 million U.S. dollars). […]

An explosion hit the Hutang Garden street in Changzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province on Tuesday evening, causing house collapse, according to CCTV news. […]

Offline business of shopping centers and department stores will resume starting June 1, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce said late Monday. […]

Terasaki Makoto is a Japanese doctor working at a hospital in Shanghai’s Pudong New District. Every time he goes out to conduct nucleic acid testing in COVID-hit Shanghai, he leaves home early in the morning and comes back late at night. […]

A development and appraisal well at Bozhong 19-6 condensate gas field reached a drilling depth of 5,813 meters, marking a new record for the deepest drilling well at Bohai oilfield, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) Tianjin Branch told China News Service on Monday. […]

Since its launch in December 2021, the China-Laos Railway had handled over 3.09 million passenger trips as of Monday, official data showed. […]

Key to Asia-Pacific success is win-win cooperation, not zero-sum confrontation：Chinese FM […]

Secondary and post-secondary vocational schools in China train around 10 million skilled workers every year, the Ministry of Education (MOE) said on Tuesday. […]

Ruins of the Camel City covers an area of 300,000 square meters, and is the best-preserved ancient cultural relics of Han and Tang Dynasties (202 BC-207AD) in China. It was listed as national key cultural relic protection site in 1996. […]

Chemical analyses conducted by Chinese researchers found that incense discovered from an underground palace dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907) shows archaeological evidence of incense trade along the ancient Silk Road. […]

China ranks first in the world in the number of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) designated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said Tuesday. […]

Chinese researchers have commenced breeding experiments on 12,000 seeds that were bred inside the Shenzhou-13 crewed spaceship in space for six months. […]

A new international railway express connecting China and Myanmar departed from Southwest China's Chongqing municipality on Monday, marking the opening of a new China-ASEAN trade corridor. […]

Workers remove the last public payphone near Times Square in New York City, U.S., May 23, 2022., marking what officials called "the end of the pay phone era." […]

The world of ice cream: real flavors you have to see to believ […]

China has expanded medical facilities in rural areas in the past decade to ensure its 509.8 million rural residents have access to basic medical services. […]

Two tubes of nucleic acid sampling for COVID-19 were reported in Tianshan district of Urumqi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, according to Urumqi Epidemic Prevention and Control headquarters. […]

Global peace and development is faced with challenges posed by the Ukraine crisis at a time when the world has yet to emerge from the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization recently recognized three sites in China as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Tuesday. […]

World number two Daniil Medvedev reaches the French Open second round with a comfortable win but 14th seed Denis Shapovalov makes a surprise exit. […]

Fossils belonging to the Dragon of Death - found in Argentina - date back 86 million years. […]

The Premier League approves the £4.25bn takeover of Chelsea with the consortium, led by US businessman Todd Boehly, passing its owner's and directors' […]

Czech eighth seed Karolina Pliskova survives a first-round scare to advance at the French Open. […]

Czech rider Jan Hirt claims a first Grand Tour win as Richard Carapaz sees his overall lead of the Giro d'Italia cut to three seconds. […]

Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez will face Gennady Golovkin in a trilogy fight in September rather than meet Dmitry Bivol in a rematch. […]

Erling Haaland flies to the UK to complete his £51.2m transfer to Premier League champions Manchester City, who also have sights on Kalvin Phillips. […]

Survivors of sex abuse at the hands of clergy were stonewalled and vilified, a new report finds. […]

Staff describe bins overflowing with bottles, people sitting on each other's laps and colleagues sleeping in the office. […]

The US president meets key Asia allies to discuss China's influence and differences over Russia's invasion. […]

Mateusz Morawiecki also warned that only the Russian leader would be “happy” with a UK-EU trade war. […]

The message "Manchester United are rubbish" appeared on screen during a news broadcast on Tuesday. […]

Sedar Soares was shot dead outside a Dutch metro station in 2003, his killer has not been found. […]

West Ham United defender Kurt Zouma admits kicking and slapping his pet cat in a video that also showed him saying "I swear I'll kill it". […]

Russia's prominent opposition figure condemns a war "built on lies" as he faces many more years in jail. […]

Why hydrogen might be one route for Germany to move away from dependence on Russian imports. […]

Leaked photos of the dinner party held while Covid lockdown measures were in force caused outrage. […]

The director of The Big Blue and Nikita was accused of repeatedly raping actress Sand Van Roy. […]

Dmytro Mikhai and Dasha Kutanova are living with the family of Team GB rower Jack Beaumont. […]

Turkey's leader accuses Kyriakos Mitsotakis of trying to block sales of US fighter jets to Ankara. […]