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A clinician says dengue fever vaccines should be made available in New Zealand, as the Cook Islands reports a death from their current outbreak - an outbreak that has seen cases in Aotearoa grow too.

The relationship between cinema and ping pong goes back to the silver screen's earliest years.

A complaint alleged the US director of national intelligence's office sought to prevent the routine dissemination of certain classified intelligence for political reasons.

Communities along the Pilbara coast are bracing for another day of wild weather.

A jury has been chosen for a trial of whether social media giants Meta and Alphabet encouraged addiction, in a potentially landmark court case.

US President Donald Trump's complete impunity and dominance, "Peak Trump", may have passed, writes John Lyons.

Kids learn from their parents' reactions whether feeling pain can be safe or is always a disaster.

The latest release of the so-called Epstein files has revealed the convicted child sex offender was in contact with members of, and people close to monarchies across Europe and the Middle East.

The White House first defended the post on Friday depicting the Obamas as apes, then deleted it 12 hours after it appeared.

Iran's top diplomat says nuclear talks with the US mediated by Oman are off to a "good start" and set to continue.

The US has arrested a person suspected of playing a central role in the 2012 attack on its consulate in Libya, Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Friday.

Authorities did not specify the nature or content of the latest communication, or where it was received.

The Sunni Muslim group emerged in Iraq and Syria, and continues to operate despite losing most of its 'caliphate' a decade ago.

The alleged Chinese test had a yield "in the hundreds of tons", a US official said, although a monitoring group said it had not detected anything of the sort.