New Zealand declares climate emergency, promises carbon neutral government by 2025

New Zealand joins 32 other countries including Japan, Canada, France and Britain that have declared a climate emergency

Amazon's 'The Lord Of The Rings' series resumes filming in New Zealand

No, it's not a retelling of Peter Jackson's trilogy

Australia, Canada and the UK suspended extradition treaties with Hong Kong earlier this month

Since 2014 nearly 3,000 New Zealanders in Australia have had their visas cancelled ‘on character grounds’

A 24-day run with no cases was broken on Tuesday when it emerged two women who recently arrived from Britain tested positive for COVID-19

The two new cases were women aged in their 30s and 40s who visited a dying parent in Wellington, the director general of health said

The country is almost off the coronavirus grid, with only one Covid-19 patient in hospital, and no new positive cases for last one week

Both have slowed the spread of the novel coronavirus to levels well below those in United States, Britain and some other European countries

Stuff faced financial challenges before the coronavirus pandemic struck and has since seen advertising revenues plunge

Experts caution that both cases and deaths from COVID-19 are almost certainly underreported in every country