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A police officer has died after two officers were shot and another person was hit by a fleeing car in West Auckland. According to Stuff.co, the two officers were seriously injured after being shot at during a routine t
Twilight actress Kristen Stewart will play Princess Diana in a new film about the late princess's break-up from Prince Charles, according to reports. Stewart will star in Spencer, set in the early 1990s, which will
A new book by the former US National Security Adviser John Bolton says US President Donald Trump tried to get China's President Xi Jinping to help him secure re-election. In details of the forthcoming book in US media,
It was claimed in the New Zealand Parliament today that two women who have tested positive for COVID-19 got lost on their drive from Auckland to Wellington and required help, and also gave a person a kiss and a cuddle.
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order introducing several police reforms while rejecting calls to defund or dismantle the police. His order offers federal grants to improve police practices, inclu
Prince Charles has still not fully regained his sense of smell and taste after having coronavirus in March. He made the revelation while visiting staff of the United Kingdom National Health Service staff. BBC
The new Covid-19 cases in New Zealand are two women from the United Kingdom who were allowed to travel to Wellington on compassionate grounds. The Director general of Health, Ashley Bloomfield says both cases are f
Pop star Beyoncé has demanded justice for a black woman killed by Police in a letter to the Attorney General in the US state of Kentucky. The singer urged Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to bring charges
India is to convert another 500 railway carriages to create 8,000 more beds for coronavirus patients in Delhi, amid a surge in infections. Home Minister Amit Shah announced a package of new emergency measures for t
The shooting of another African-American man during a US arrest has prompted fresh condemnation of the use of deadly force by Police. 27-year-old Rayshard Brook was shot dead as he fled officers in a restaurant car
An area of the Chinese capital Beijing has been put under strict lockdown measures after the city's first coronavirus cases in more than 50 days. The BBC reports the outbreak has been linked to the city's largest w
One of Uganda's best-known mountain gorillas, Rafiki, has been killed. Four men have been arrested, and they face a life sentence or a fine of US $5.4 million if found guilty of killing an endangered species.
A man in California has been charged with poisoning eight homeless people with a substance described as "twice as strong" as pepper spray. William Robert Cable is accused of giving at least eight people food laced
Sony has kicked off its PlayStation 5 launch event with a first look at Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The video game centres on the star of the firm's recent hit movie - Into the Spider-Verse - and briefly showed off
Nigerian police say they have arrested a man after 40 people were raped in one town over the period of a year. BBC News reports a mother in the northern town Dangora caught the man in her children's bedroom. .
The first Arab space mission to Mars is preparing to lift off within weeks. BBC News reports fuelling is due to begin next week. It will take seven months to travel the 493 million km to reach Mars and begin
The former Police officer accused of killing the unarmed black man George Floyd has made his first court appearance, where his bail was set at $US1.25m. BBC News reports prosecutors cited the "severity of the charges"
The man accused of murdering African American George Floyd, whose death sparked global protests, is to appear in court for the first time today. Derek Chauvin, a white policeman, knelt on Floyd's neck for almost ni
Tanzania's President John Magufuli has declared the country "coronavirus-free" thanks to prayers by citizens. Magufuli told worshippers in a church in the capital, Dodoma that “The corona disease has been elimin
Security measures in the US have been lifted as unrest over the death in police custody of African-American George Floyd eases. New York ended its nearly week-long curfew and US President Donald Trump said he was o
