Twenty shows over ten days will feature everything from indigenous to contemporary dance works, ballet and hip-hop, solo and ...

The Green Party's spokesperson for defence and disarmament says the pager attack on Hezbollah shows Israel is continuing to ...

As New Zealand celebrates its annual Māori language week, the government is ramping up initiatives to remove recognition of ...

An accomplished haka dancer has been anointed the next Māori leader over her elder brothers in an emotional coronation attended by thousands. Nga Wai Hono i te po Paki, 27, the only daughter of ...

A council of New Zealand’s Maori chiefs anointed a new queen on 5 September 2024 as a flotilla of war canoes readied to transport her father, the late monarch, for burial on a sacred mountain.

Ms Nga Wai, 27, is only the second Maori queen after her grandmother Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu. She was chosen as ...

A new queen was crowned as the eighth Māori monarch in New Zealand as her father, Kiingi Tuheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII, ...

She takes the throne as some of the country’s pro-Maori policies are being pared back ... residents of the war-ravaged Ukrainian city have found outlets for joy and emotional release above ...

New Zealand’s Maori chiefs have anointed Nga Wai hono i te po as their new queen and eighth monarch, to succeed her father King Tuheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII who passed away at 69 after a ...

A flotilla of carved war canoes, or waka ... the Māori term for performing arts. A haka dance accompanied some of Kiingi Tuheitia's funeral ceremony, which was elaborate and in many parts ...

For much of the past 11 months—during which Israel has waged a brutal war of retaliation against Hamas that has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians and made much of the coastal enclave ...