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Michael Cohen arrives for his sentencing in New York. Photo; Reuters US president Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen has been jailed for three years for orchestrating hush payments to women in violation of campaign laws before the 2016 election and financial crimes, posing potential legal and political risks to Trump.

gettyimages-465894706_8.jpg Photo: Getty Images A New Zealand citizen locked in detention has gone to Australia's highest court to break new legal ground that would protect Aborigines from deportation.

Animal activists are calling for a ban on greyhound racing, saying it is outrageous that 353 dogs were euthanised last season.

A former police officer will spend years in prison for committing a series of sex crimes.

Joe Schmidt. Photo: Getty Images Joe Schmidt has admitted that he will "never say never" in regards to coaching the All Blacks in the future.

Jack-Henry Sinclair of Team Wellington and Tsukasa Shiotani of Al Ain chase the ball in their match this morning. Photo: Getty Images Team Wellington squandered a 3-0 lead before going down in a penalty shootout in the club's first game at the Club World Cup this morning.

All Black Nehe Milner-Skudder. Photo: Getty Images Nehe Milner-Skudder looks to have played his last test for the All Blacks.

Theresa May speaks at Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters British Prime Minister Theresa May has promised to step down before the next parliamentary election due in 2022, hoping to win over wavering lawmakers before a no confidence vote triggered by Brexiteers in her Conservative Party.

A man has died after the ute he was driving rolled on a farm in the Coromandel overnight.

air_nz_takeoff.jpg After three days of mediation the strikes were called off at 10pm yesterday. Photo: Getty Images Air New Zealand and the unions representing the company's engineers have reached an agreement, lifting the strike notice that threatened to disrupt travel for 120,000 customers in the lead up to Christmas.

Three-time New Zealand Cup winner Terror To Love will begin the next chapter of his career tomorrow night.

Pam Jones ponders the rage surrounding the death of British backpacker Grace Millane.

Peter McIntyre. The ante has been upped in the Trade Me takeover battle, with London-based Apax Partners increasing its bid from $2.54billion to $2.56billion - matching the bid of US firm Hellman & Friedman last week.

Harriet Bremner, pictured with Poppy the miniature dachshund, has written a book about farm safety. Photo: Supplied Harriet Bremner wants to encourage conversations about farm safety.

Rowi kiwi. Photo: DOC Fifteen years after they were almost wiped out, there are now enough rare rowi kiwi for a new population to be established.

Grace Millane was murdered on the weekend of her 22nd birthday. The death of British backpacker Grace Millane has prompted a torrent of horror, anger and grief around the country.

Princess Mary driving her beautiful spirited white horses through the grounds of Windsor Castle, accompanied by the Queen's maid of honour. - Otago Witness, 11.12.1918 A small party which went after a big pig that had been making himself a nuisance had a quarter of an hour or so packed with incident at the Stone House up the Reaby Gorge last week (the Mataura Ensign reports).

Mark Preece King Salmon will add a third monitoring site application to test viability for offshore fish farms in Otago.

Photo: Gregor Richardson Knox Church members (from left) Jordan Redding, Ben Tombs and Warren Jowett support Oil Free Otago at the Carols Against Coal event in the Octagon yesterday.

Sarah Gardner. A departed regional council director will be temporarily replaced by an ex-Auckland Regional Council chief executive commuting from the north.