HSBC’s exposure to defaulted commercial property loans in Hong Kong surged almost sixfold to more than $3 billion (NZ$4.8b) ...

The Texas Longhorns are the highest-ranked team in college football for the first time in 16 years following their 56-7 rout of the UTSA Roadrunners on Saturday night. The Longhorns leapfrogged ...

Iran's new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, on Wednesday nominated a member of the Sunni Muslim minority to be governor of Kurdistan province, official media reported. Arash Zerehtan was appointed ...

Hawke’s Bay Racing officials and Hastings racegoers will be hoping the weather gods are kind over the next fortnight so that ...

One reason for his success is his enduringly popular music quiz PopMaster, to which he acquired the rights after the BBC turned down the opportunity to jointly trademark it years ago.

The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was released on Wednesday after two years behind bars in Tehran's Evin prison, media outlets in the Islamic republic reported.

A 13-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a man in the driveway of a home on a residential street in Brockton on Tuesday afternoon as she was walking home from West Middle School, authorities said.

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate will vote for the second time this year on legislation that would establish a nationwide right to in vitro fertilization — Democrats’ latest election-year ...