A car will drive itself throught the streets of Tauranga today – a first for New Zealand.

Facebook will no longer allow advertising for certain things to exclude people from its ads based on race or ethnicity, it says.

Mediaworks presenter Paul Henry will quit morning television, and the company’s current affairs show Story has been axed.

A magazine and a journalist have been ordered to pay $US3 million in damages over a false article about a gang rape at the University of Virginia.

Shares in NZME have slumped after the Commerce Commission revealed it planned to turn down the media company’s merger with Fairfax.

The Commerce Commission is planning to decline to authorise the merger between media giants Fairfax and NZME, it has revealed this morning.

A study has found the people who spend the most time on social media are also the most lonely.

Facebook has abandoned plans for a British car insurer to be able to access young peoples’ profiles, their posts and likes, to judge their safety as a driver.

Gerald Hope and and his daughter’s convicted killer, Scott Watson, can now meet along with journalist Mike White, the Department of Corrections has agreed.

Turkish police have detained the editor-in-chief of an opposition secularist newspaper over alleged links to a US-based cleric and Kurdish militants.