First-home buyers are making up the biggest share of Queenstown property purchases in nearly two decades - but getting a foot on the ladder is still proving brutal in New Zealand's most expensive district. Katie Todd reports.

Nicolas Maduro and Cilla Flores have pleaded not guilty on charges of narcoterrorism. US correspondent Zach Montellaro spoke to Melissa Chan-Green.

The ransom threat from hackers who have stolen 400,000 patient files from Manage My Health is set to expire. Chair of the General Practice Owners Association, Angus Chambers, who is also a GP spoke to Melissa Chan-Green.

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We’d all like to know how to live long healthy lives. And Kim Hill is no different. In this episode of ‘Kim Hill wants to know’ she talks to geneticist Dame Linda Partridge about the scientific breakthroughs that could mean the end to aging as we know it.

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