New Zealand

New Zealand took several key precautions that the U.S. and other nations failed to in order to quickly tame the pandemic.

One piece of litigation described Royal Caribbean's decision to allow visitors to the volcanic island "so reckless that it should not be tolerated in civilized society."

Jesse Shane Kempson was convicted of the 2018 murder of British backpacker Grace Millane in New Zealand.

A man was charged with owning the dog that causes serious injury/death after the newborn was mauled by a rottweiler inside a home.

Communist Party newspaper "Global Times" accused Ardern's government of "double standards" following her public backing of Australia and Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday.

Upon the arrival of officials, 26 of the whales were still alive but had to be euthanized.

Wisconsin reported 92 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday alone, while New Zealand, Singapore and Iceland have reported 25, 28 and 25, respectively throughout the pandemic.

The baby is thought to have been playing with a buoy and craypot line when it got tangled.

"You've just been a part of a political movement that was peddling misinformation during the election campaign," New Zealand anchor Tova O'Brien told Jami Lee Ross in the video.

With only 25 deaths and fewer than 1,900 cases, Ardern's tough coronavirus measures were lauded. Her Labour Party looks set to claim 64 out of the parliament's 120 seats.

Winston Peters was speaking at a campaign event in Tauranga when the incident took place.

A member of New Zealand's New Conservative Party clashed with parenting influencers, Christian Newman and Mark Edwards.

Auckland, which had a cluster of cases in August, joins the rest of the country and reaches the lowest level of alert.

With Kiwis going to the polls on October 17, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party wants to ban the practice that stigmatizes members of the LGBTQ community.

Owen James Sigley, 66, replied to an online advertisement to have intercourse with a 15-year-old girl.

While Friday marked the first time in over a month with no new cases, it is also the fourth consecutive day of no new community cases.

Former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown had returned from a trip in which he met Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Australian Brenton Tarrant sat in Christchurch High Court and heard emotional impact statements from the relatives of the 51 people he killed in attacks on two mosques last year.

New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern said Trump's suggestion that her country was seeing a surge in virus cases was "patently wrong."

President Donald Trump told supporters in Minnesota on Monday that New Zealand's nine new cases was "terrible" on the same day that the U.S. added nearly 42,000 new cases.

The bite was the second most powerful of any animal on Earth.

New Zealand health officials are investigating whether a new outbreak of COVID-19, the country's first after more than 100 days, could have been imported through frozen food packaging.

The U.S. has reported at least 164,690 fatalities to date, the highest COVID-19 death toll in the world.

Additional new cases are likely to emerge in the coming days, New Zealand's Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said.

"I know that this information will be very difficult to receive," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said. "We had all hoped not to find ourselves in this position again, but we had also prepared for it."

The U.S. continues to lead the world in coronavirus cases and deaths.

A kiwi with a broken leg had to return to a veterinary hospital after breaking his other leg shortly after release back into the wild. Piwi has had a tough few months.

Martin jokingly wrote that fans could imprison him if he didn't finish his latest book in time for New Zealand's Worldcon 2020, which began today. Now fans are trying to hold him to his word.

Nearly 9,000 New Zealanders reported feeling the shaking caused by the earthquake.

The new infections were reported to be two women who traveled from the U.K. earlier this month.