Susan Zinkin divorced her husband in 1962 but was forbidden from looking for new love for almost 50 years.

Guards linked to Blackwater given seven days to leave after US court rejects charges.

Tonight, Iran begins marking 31 years since the country's Islamic revolution.

Jill Worrall is whisked through Cairo's cacophony by taxi, boat and horse-drawn carriage.

Israeli security forces closed two popular beaches yesterday to scour them for explosives after two barrels filled with munitions were found washed up on the shores of southern Israel.

Nine figures of the New Zealand film industry have been nominated for the 2010 Oscars.

British ministers ignored the military's warning that more time was needed before the invasion of Iraq, an inquiry hears.

Medic says 20 years of injury and death in NZ no preparation for life on patrol.

US senators are urging US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to take more proactive steps in supporting organisations that promote 'Internet freedom' in countries such as Iran and China, where severe Internet restrictions are enforced.

Direct flights from Yemen to Britain will be banned as a key part of new anti-terrorist measures following the failed attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner, Gordon Brown announced yesterday.

Mfat says it is in contact with a Jordanian New Zealander sentenced to two years' hard labour by Lebanon's Military Tribunal.

NZ foreign affairs officials are checking a report that Lebanon's Military Tribunal has sentenced a Jordanian New Zealander and six others to hard labour for forming a terrorist group.

Taliban fighters have developed a deadly new generation of their most lethal weapon, the improvised explosive device, or IED, which is almost undetectable because it has no metal or electronic parts, military experts said last week.

The defence correspondent of the Sunday Mirror newspaper has become the first British journalist to be killed while covering the war in Afghanistan.

PM keen to hear Hillary Clinton's views on what progress has been made towards establishing a corruption-free Government in Afghanistan.