Category: World News

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand In 1962, Dunedin farmer Alan MacLeod said to his wife Joan and six kids, ‘how about going for a drive’?’ Little did they know the ‘harebrained scheme’ Alan had cooked up would see them travelling the world in a homemade house truck a year later. He wanted to reconnect the family…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand Police Assistant Commissioner Mike Johnson. Photo: Nathan Mckinnon Police attended 7370 fewer mental health-related requests in the year to June, a result of the deliberate plan to wind back on responding to calls for help. The department expects to respond to even fewer calls this year as it enters…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand People walk down a street at the Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees, near the Jordanian city of Mafraq, about 80Km north of the capital Amman on January 13, 2025. Photo: AFP / KHALIL MAZRAAWI It is estimated that more than a million Syrian refugees have returned home since the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand US Represenative Clay Higgins, Republican of Louisiana Photo: JULIA NIKHINSON Representative Clay Higgins, Republican of Louisiana, was the sole no vote against releasing government records on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It comes after President Donald Trump changed his position, after months of opposition to opening the case file tied…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand With a television remote-style controller that tracked the motion of a player’s hands in real time, the Nintendo Wii was unlike any console before it. Designed to get players moving their body, players could swing a virtual tennis racket or bowl a strike — and its simple controls meant…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand In February of 2020, when the news broke that UK television presenter Caroline Flack had died by suicide, the British tabloid media immediately came under scrutiny for its coverage of her final months. The months leading up to the star’s death were tumultuous as she faced charges of assault…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand Tonga’s fuel shortage has resulted in queues of cars outside petrol stations. Photo: RNZ Pacific / Teuila Fuatai Silia Vailala and Lavelua Tui have been waiting to get gas for two hours at a petrol station in Nuku’alofa. They’re second in line, with at least a dozen vehicles behind…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand New Zealand’s backflip on emission targets earned it ‘Fossil of the Day’ at the COP30 summit in Brazil. Photo: AFP / Ludovic Marin New Zealand has tumbled in an international climate-change league table, with authors now ranking it as “low-performing”. The country fell three places to 44th in the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand Cambridge Dictionary has named its word of the year for 2025, alighting on “parasocial”, used to describe a connection that people feel with someone they don’t know – or even with an artificial intelligence. The term was coined in 1956 by sociologists Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, who wanted…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand Workslop masquerades as meaningful, it may appear superficially polished, and yet requires others to interpret, fix, or even redo it. It’s a growing source of frustration in the workplace, Dr Kate Niederhoffer a social psychologist told RNZ’s Afternoons. She is vice president of Texas-based BetterUp Labs and co-authored a…