Simon Sebag Montefiore tells Stephen Jewell about writing ‘the greatest story ever told’ and why the history of Jerusalem is the story of the world.

Higher fuel prices are likely to mean lower profit margins and lower real wages.

Middle East tension poses a threat to the delicate global recovery.

All New Zealanders who wanted to leave Libya had now left, Foreign Minister Murray McCully says.

Food writer Leanne Kitchen has had an enviable career, including writing a new cookbook, which took her to delicious Turkish nooks and crannies.

Investors flocked to oil and gold on world markets overnight amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, with violence in Libya gathering steam.

There is also nothing moderate about a government instituting a system of torture against political dissidents.

The wave of protests across the Middle East and North Africa don't yet constitute revolution and real democratic change may be decades away, Auckland University associate professor Stephen Hoadley says.

A high-flying banker from NZ has denied having sex with two women caught in a love triangle that went violently wrong.

Lessons from an extraordinary uprising - for protesters and police alike.

Clashes between protesters and security forces left dozens of people injured in Libya today.

The Egyptian military has reinforced its efforts to try to return the country to normal.

A Kiwi in Egypt says it's becoming clear Hosni Mubarak's resignation was a military coup, and wonders how keen the military will be to create a real democracy.

Cellphone entrepreneur tries again, with venture targeting emerging markets.

Dan Shanan is a trustee of the Documentary Edge Festival.