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New Zealand is perceived as the least corrupt nation on earth, and Somalia and North Korea are seen as the most corrupt, a German watchdog organization said in a report released this week.

A 3-year-old girl comforted herself with her favorite toy and ate cheese, leftover lasagna and milk for two days after her mother died unexpectedly in their New Zealand home....

Alfred Hitchcock is still surprising his fans. Film preservationists say they've found the first half of "The White Shadow," the earliest surviving feature film on which Hitchcock has a credit.

The most recent statistics according to the IE6 Countdown shows that the world as a whole is at 10.9% usage on IE6. The United States, Turkey, Canada, Brazil, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and the UK are at the top (bottom) of the list with under 3% of overall browsers running as IE6. Norway leads everyone at 0.4% and their neighbors in Finland are at 0.8%.

PBS officials say hackers have cracked the network's website. The hackers apparently posted a phony story claiming dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive in New Zealand....

New Zealand parents are outraged after learning some schools are helping to keep teenage girls’ abortions a secret, the Sunday Star-Times reports. One mom is angry that her 16-year-old daughter had a secret abortion allegedly arranged by a school counselor.

Buildings are destroyed as hundreds of dazed, screaming and crying residents wander through streetsDisaster in New Zealand Big Quake Strikes New Zealand USGS: Q

In the latest issue of the British movie magazine Total Film , they offer a preview of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit , which will start production soon after years of delays and setbacks. Months ago, we saw a little bit of Hobbiton, Bilbo Baggins' home in The Shire being built in New Zealand, but thanks to the pictures in the latest issue, we can see that building on that distinctive set is pretty much complete.

A massive explosion deep inside a New Zealand coal mine Wednesday erased hopes of rescuing 29 miners caught underground by a similar blast five days ago. The prime minister declared it a national tragedy....

Poisonous gases kept rescuers from entering a New Zealand coal mine where a powerful blast trapped 29 workers, as intermittent power outages Saturday frustrated efforts to pump in fresh air.