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Heading into 2024, Europeans are lurching to the right in greater numbers.

Take our quiz to test what you remember about the last year in sport.

There's a culinary revolution across the Pacific thanks largely to efforts in Hawaii.

In the Northern Hemisphere, it's the adults who suffer the most acute Santa derangement.

Plots from novels by Aldous Huxley may seem quaint now but the threat of tyranny remains.

"Scott Morrison, the self-confessed bulldozer prone to mansplaining, exasperated Ardern".

How a few good jokes in 2011 led the US to become a worldwide laughing stock.

"It’s not like COP28 delegates can hear the ominous swoosh of a bomb before it strikes."

Cartoonist Chris Slane’s perspective on current events.

Relentless heat, daunting traffic and homelessness - why LA reminds Colin Hogg of Auckland

Four years ago this month, the first patients with a new virus were reported in Wuhan.

November 22 marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of US president JFK.

Already armed with guns, fighters' new weapons of war are GoPros and its clones.

For a Dunedin author, going behind the Iron Curtain was like entering a time wrap.

"Gaza is unbearable": Subjugation, cruelty and the trap of learned behaviour.

"I am among the gazillions of humans who are flummoxed and saddened by the violence..."

Winning – or indeed losing – the Rugby World Cup shouldn’t be taken too seriously.

Coral reefs are living animals vital to marine life, particularly in the South Pacific.

This weekend’s final is a far cry from its humble beginnings in 1987.

The All Blacks are favoured to win, but the Pumas should not be dismissed lightly.

Many of us see recycling as the best way we can help to save the planet.

A financial journalist argues how complex the global economic system has become.

We know the world’s glaciers are melting but is climate change the only reason?

It's a digital great leap forward in interpreting Antarctica and climate change.

Amid a tide of racism and misinformation, Australians are divided on a simple question.

Scientist has been able to identify cycles of stability and violence across human history.

Israel has built high-tech export industry based on mass surveillance & societal control.

Mike Seawright, who set up aid agency, describes horrific destruction and emotional toll.

Because it is human nature, some lost all sense of perspective considering the events.