A “nagging” wife who pushed her husband to buy a lottery ticket helped scoop the $4.2 million ($7.7 million New Zealand dollar) first prize _ with only minutes to spare. The man from New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland, bought his ticket just two minutes

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday that a lingering nuclear dispute between the United States and New Zealand ought to be overcome to focus on a new era of cooperation in the Pacific and elsewhere.Rice said joint efforts to return to...

Sherpas laid prayer scarves on Sir Edmund Hillary’s coffin as thousands across New Zealand bid farewell to the Mount Everest conqueror Tuesday. An honor guard held ice axes aloft as his casket was carried through their lines.About 500 New Zealand and...

A New Zealand judge sentenced two Chinese students to 18 1/2 years in prison Thursday for the ransom kidnapping and slaying of a fellow student, saying the two fell into “cyber sloth” and greed during their studies abroad.Cui Xiangxin and Li Zheng,...

Police issued a murder and kidnapping warrant Thursday for the father of a 3-year-old girl found abandoned in Australia after her mother’s body was found stuffed in the trunk of a car in New Zealand.The warrant for the arrest of Xue Naiyin, a...