Editorial coverage from the Auckland New Zealand Wire newsroom.
Billions of dollars are being spent on research to find a molecule that will cure Alzheimer’s disease. Yet, as Dr. Louis Bherer explains, adopting certain lifestyle habits could significantly reduce the risk of developing symptoms, in some…
Millions of people take antihistamines for allergies, but some of these medicines can make you sleepy, slow your reactions and affect your concentration. Others are much less likely to have these effects.
Recent elections in Brazil and Israel have yielded different political outcomes. In Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s narrow and ultimately surprise victory in a presidential runoff vote has kept him in office.
When the Booker prize was first launched in 1969, its aim was to get more people reading and to stimulate discussion about contemporary literature.
At the end of Star Trek: Generations (1994), surveying the wreckage of the crashed USS Enterprise he captained for nearly a decade, Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) muses to his first officer, William Riker (Jonathan Frakes):
Erin Patterson has lost her appeal against her 2025 convictions on three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.
A sweeping overhaul of New Zealand’s education system over the past three years has affected almost every aspect of how schools operate.
When voters enter polling booths across the United States next week to cast their ballots in the midterm elections, very few will be thinking explicitly about foreign policy.
Imagine a father pretending to be mad because he wants to stay with his son and his family and not go to war. When his son’s life is in danger, he is forced to disclose the truth and is obliged to leave his son to go to war.
For many, the internet is feeling less secure these days, thanks to generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools making it easier than ever to exploit hidden security flaws.
There is a famous truism that “all politics is local” – meaning citizens and voters care most about the things that affect their daily lives.
Exit polls in Israel’s 2026 elections suggest Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition will be significantly smaller than the bloc of parties opposing him in the next Knesset (parliament).