All four Tongan MPs whose seats in parliament were voided after election petitions have won stays pending appeals.

The gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a school had written on social media he would shoot his grandmother and attack a school.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has left Washington bound for her Harvard commencement speech after a whirlwind trip to the United States’ capital, dominated by discussion of gun control.

Indians are getting fatter, according to a new government survey, and experts are warning about a health emergency unless the growing obesity problem is tackled on a war footing.

Changes to a $60 million programme to help sexually abused children have been badly mismanaged by Oranga Tamariki, an independent review has found.

The gunman who massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas warned in online messages sent minutes before the attack that he had shot his grandmother and was going to shoot up a school, the governor said.

As the US reels from another school shooting, more details are emerging of the horror that unfolded in Texas near the border with Mexico.

China wants 10 small Pacific nations to endorse a sweeping agreement covering everything from security to fisheries in what one leader warns is a “game-changing” bid by Beijing to wrest control of the region.

An Ohio man has been charged with aiding and abetting a plot to kill former President George W. Bush.

An 18-year-old gunman on Tuesday fatally shot 19 children and two adults at a Texas elementary school before he was killed by law enforcement officers, officials said.

Workers digging through the rubble of an apartment building in Mariupol found 200 bodies in the basement, Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday, as more horrors come to light in the ruined city that has seen some of the worst sufferings of the 3-month-old war.

American Samoa has launched a new programme to tackle drug use.