A next-generation living soil developed by a husband and wife in their Taranaki backyard has been named Germany's Garden Product of the Year.

Illustrator, best-selling author and mental health advocate Campbell Walker, better known as Struthless, has amassed over 50 million video views where he discusses mental health and creativity - and how the two go hand in hand.

Elin Anna Labba's nonfiction book The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow, the forced displacement of the Northern Sámi blends history, memoir, poetry and images to depict a hard life and give voice to long-held grief.

Back in 1982, the broken-hearted 23-year-old Elspeth Beard set out on the solo adventure of a lifetime - clocking up 35,000 miles and becoming the first British woman to circumnavigate the globe on a motorcycle.

It is New Zealand Archeology Week this week and Tuhura - Otago Museum has a Treasure of Tiwai event on.

This week National introduced a members' bill to ban social media for people under the age of 16.

A fertility industry conference held in Singapore last weekend has considered some of the ethical issues for donor conceived people.

Hundreds of people from Dunedin to Auckland took to the streets this week to protest the government's new Pay Equity Amendment Bill. It was pushed through parliament this week under urgency.

We've seen the worst outbreak of violence in Pakistan and India in 30 years this week and Reuters is reporting that 48 people have been killed so far in the latest escalation of conflict.

The government says it will launch a review into the Waitangi Tribunal to refocus the "scope, purpose and nature" of the Tribunal's inquiries back to its "original intent".