One of the biggest opinion polls in New Zealand, the TV One-Colmar Brunton poll has just delivered another savage blow to Labour and its leader Phil Goff.

There is no doubt that there has been large scale and unfair vote rigging against opposition Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi in last week's elections.

President Barack Obama has now served in the Oval Office for just over 100 days as America's first African-American chief executive.

US President George W. Bush could not have received a more fitting farewell from an Iraqi journalist who spoke so eloquently on behalf of his fellow countrymen and women - a pair of shoes aimed at the dimmest mind in global politics.

In recent weeks the world has been experiencing the re-birth of a once discredited economic philosophy - Keynesianism.

Wellington, Dec 1 NZPA/Reuters - The Government is being urged not to drag the chain during United Nations climate change talks beginning in Poland overnight, the Green party said today.

This week's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, has raised the question of whether there are continuing deeper motives behind the US's so-called 'War on Terror?'