Afghanistan will be on the agenda when Prime Minister John Key meets United Nations and Nato leaders in New York this week.

Some Indian grandparents are being brought to NZ by their families only to be used as babysitters and then 'practically abandoned'.

John Key says he is well aware of the danger New Zealand's Special Air Service (SAS) troops face in Afghanistan.

Greenpeace is trying to keep up pressure on Fonterra to limit its use of palm kernel feed with a public rally outside the Ports of Tauranga.

Japan's outlandish, and sometimes outrageous, fashion will go on show in Auckland this week.

Farmers have described Greenpeace's occupation of an inbound cargo vessel as 'economic treason.'

A NZ chocolatier claims men "can't get enough" of her new salami-tinged choclates.

Police make second arrest while expressing serious safety concerns for activists aboard a cargo ship off the Tauranga coast.

In what is being described as "groping prevention week," Tokyo police have begun a week-long crackdown against the scourge of gropers on commuter trains.