Novelist and playwright Whiti Hereaka received the top prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards this week for her novel Kurangaituku.

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An image of a gargantuan black hole at the heart of our galaxy has been captured, giving a first glimpse of the 'gentle giant' known as Sagittarius A*.

A well-known face of stage and screen, Jennifer Ward-Lealand is finding herself getting increasingly busy behind the camera in recent years, including working as an intimacy coordinator.

British philosopher Kathleen Stock resigned as a professor last year after accusations of transphobia. She tells Kim Hill her argument is not against people but against miscategorisation.

Paul McCartney's younger brother, Mike, has just received a British Empire Medal for his services to the community of the Wirral, the peninsula across the Mersey from Liverpool.

Thirty-six years after his father was ousted, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr has been elected president of the Philippines in a landslide win. Regine Cabato is the Manila reporter for The Washington Post Southeast Asia Bureau and has been reporting on the elections.

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Al Park is about to release his first solo album in 20 years, Pony, featuring songs written from the 1970s to now.

Three hundred kauri saplings grown from seeds from the Waitakere property of Colin McCahon have been made available to the public as part of the Kauri Ora project, supported by local iwi Te Kawerau a Maki.