Pakistan have beaten NZ today to set up a test series decider.

Senior Pakistani army officers have been targeted in a bloody militant suicide bomb attack that killed at least 40 people.

A personal grievance case brought by eight Air NZ pilots, removed from captaining Boeing 747-400s after their 60th birthdays, is set to be heard.

Barack Obama has announced he will send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan despite growing pessimism about the war.

Despite the roosters and backpackers, Laos can certainly turn on the charm, writes Damian Christie.

The butterfly chaos theory (according to wikipedia) refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere.