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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern led an estimated 5,000 people standing quietly at Hagley Park in front of the Al Noor mosque, where most of the victims died. (Photo:AP)

We are one, says PM Jacinda Ardern as New Zealand mourns with prayers,...

Residents of Christchurch are still recovering from a devastating earthquake that hit in 2011, killing 185 and injured...

22 March 2019 1:36 PM IST

Harris, who plays for Carlton in the Australian Football League Womens (AFLW) competition, was pictured with her leg fully extended as she kicked a goal in a photograph posted online by a broadcaster on Tuesday. (Photo: Twitter)

Australia PM slams online trolls for abusing athlete; calls cowardly...

The Prime Minister said that while social media attacks were nothing new, they did appear to be disproportionately aimed...

22 March 2019 11:01 AM IST

Brenton Tarrant

New Zealand police visited Christchurch shooter before granting gun...

The police team carried out the visit in October, interviewing Brenton Tarrant and carrying out a 'security inspection'...

22 March 2019 8:58 AM IST

The cyclone is very likely to intensify further into a very severe cyclonic storm during the next 18 hours. (Photo: Twitter | @ndmaindia)

Emergency declared as Australia braces for powerful twin cyclones

Australia on Thursday declared a state of emergency and evacuated people from its Northern Territory.

21 March 2019 5:29 PM IST

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (Photo: AFP)

Days after mosque attack, NZ bans sale of assault, semi-automatic...

NZ PM Ardern said high capacity magazines and devices similar to bump stocks -- which make rifles fire faster -- will...

21 March 2019 8:40 AM IST

What do you say to a boy who dreamed of playing in goal for Manchester United and now never will? (Photo:AFP)

'I should have hugged him': Distraught father of killed son in...

John Milne sobs as he pens an anguished letter to his murdered teenage son Sayyad one of 50 people killed in the...

20 March 2019 4:26 PM IST

The majority of victims were migrants or refugees from countries such as Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey, Somalia, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. (Photo:AP)

Friday prayers to be broadcast, 2 min silence: NZ PM Jacinda Ardern

The bodies of victims from New Zealand's mosques mass shooting were carried in open caskets on the shoulders of...

20 March 2019 2:55 PM IST

Ardern has countered that they cannot simply be all profit, no responsibility. (Photo:AP)

NZ PM Jacinda Ardern urges global action on social media perils

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Wednesday called for a global response to the dangers of social media.

20 March 2019 2:03 PM IST

A man who claimed responsibility for the shootings said in a manifesto that he was a 28-year-old white Australian who came to New Zealand only to plan and train for the attack. (Photo: AP)

Second man charged with sharing livestream video of Christchurch...

A 44-year-old man has become the second person charged with sharing a gruesome livestream video of the deadly attack.

20 March 2019 12:07 PM IST

Zaid Mustafa (centre, in wheelchair), who was wounded by an Australian white supremacist gunman, attends the funeral of his slain father Khalid Mustafa and brother Hamza Mustafa at the Memorial Park cemetery in Christchurch on March 20, 2019. (Photo: AFP)

Syrian refugee father, son buried as New Zealand funerals begin

A gunman shot down 50 Muslim worshippers at 2 mosques in Christchurch last Friday in a killing spree that he...

20 March 2019 9:43 AM IST

Farid, who uses a wheelchair after an earlier accident, was talking to a friend and was delayed from joining worshippers at his usual spot at the front of the mosque, instead praying in a small side room. (Photo: AFP)

'Go home, she won't come': Husband was told after New Zealand shooting

Most victims were migrants or refugees from countries including Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Syria, Turkey, Somalia and...

20 March 2019 9:14 AM IST

The attack has upended New Zealands image as one of the worlds safest and most tolerant countries. (Photo:AP)

NZ city Christchurch harboured white supremacists before massacre

The city where a racist fatally shot 50 people at mosques during Friday prayers is known for its English heritage.

19 March 2019 6:13 PM IST