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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has - for the first time - spoken defiantly of the need for eastern Ukraine to be given "statehood". Audio

The Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, is expected to meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin later today, as tensions escalate in eastern Ukraine. Audio

Freelance journalist and keen surfer Charles Newbery reporting from the eighth largest country by landmass, the federal republic of Argentina, located in south-eastern South America, pop. 41,660,417… Audio

A handful of protestors fronted up to the Auckland mayor and the housing minister over a new development in the eastern suburb of Glen Innes. Audio

Whanganui iwi descendants are making their way 60-kilometres up the river to witness the signing of their tribe's Treaty of Waitangi Settlement with the Crown. A New Zealand born artist, who in the… Audio

Whanganui iwi descendants are making their way up the river to witness the signing of their tribe's Treaty of Waitangi Settlement with the Crown; A New Zealand born artist, who in the 1980's started… Audio

Free football on Thai TV, thanks to the military and workers' rights in Qatar as the Middle Eastern nation moves toward the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Audio

West Papua under the spotlight in New Zealand where parliamentarians have called upon the new President of Indonesia to commit to genuine media freedom in West Papua. Audio

The remaining bodies of MH17 victims and their personal items could be taken by train out of the crash site in eastern Ukraine within days. Audio

Noble Keelan founded Gisborne's Eastern Knights Chess Club with Genestis Potini, the subject of the critically acclaimed New Zealand film The Dark Horse starring Cliff Curtis. The Film opens in… Audio

Alain Bertaud is a senior research scholar at the NYU Stern Urbanization Project. His main area of research is the impact of markets, transportation, and regulations on urban form. Bertaud previously… Audio

In 1992 Peter Feeney decided to do his post-grad study in Eastern Europe and Russia, just after the fall of communism... Tinderbox: My Year of Living Dangerously II: Russia 1992 Audio

Australian and Dutch police will make a third attempt to access the site of the downed Malaysia Airlines jet in eastern Ukraine to recover bodies and evidence later today. Audio

Security officials in Ukraine say the downed Malaysia Airliner MH17 in eastern Ukraine suffered an explosive loss of pressure after it was punctured by shrapnel from a missile. Audio

This week Erica Challis reviews Mendelssohn in Birmingham, a new release by the City of Birmingham Symphony. She then features the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra live at the BBC Proms, and Israeli… Audio

Hugh Robertson tries finding the eastern rosella. Audio

Topics - the only logical decision on the Basin Reserve flyover says the Save The Basin Reserve Campaign Group, disappointing says Gerry Brownlee. It was intended to form part of Wellington's road of… Audio

Simon Shuster is Time Magazine's Moscow reporter. He was at the crash site of MH17 over the weekend, but was then detained by rebels along with other journalists. Audio

Has the mystery of a 50,000-strong army of Persian King Cambyses, last seen entering the Egyptian desert near Luxor (then Thebes) around 524BC, finally been dug out of the sand? With Prof. Dr. Olaf… Audio

Search teams have found 251 bodies and 86 fragments of bodies where the Malaysian airliner was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine. Audio

Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, shot down in a part of eastern Ukraine held by pro-Russian rebels in the early hours of Friday morning with 295 people on board. Wallace speaks with Washington… Audio

Eyewitnesses are describing a firey rain from the sky, after a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet crashed in eastern Ukraine killing all 295 people on board this morning. Audio

The Boeing 777 was shot down near the town of Grabovo in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, as it flew at about 10 thousand meters,or 32 thousand feet. Audio

A suicide blast in the eastern province of Paktika in Afghanistan has killed at least 89 people. The attacker targetted a market crowded full of people doing their shopping at the time of the attack. Audio

Turning parts of Christchurch's red zoned land into a flat water sports lake, a community garden or a wave garden are some of the ideas being put forward to revitalise the earthquake-ravaged eastern… Audio

Listen to the eastern curlew, a long distance migrant with a very long bill and a regular summer visitor to New Zealand. Audio

About 200 people dug into the soggy wetlands in eastern Christchurch this weekend to plant 400 native trees in a bid to turn the red zone into a swathe of green. Audio

Hauraki Gulf is a playground, wildlife hotspot, foodbasket and highway - and local councils hope the Sea Change project will help turn around the Gulf's poor health and struggling ecology Audio

With a knack for pop tune coupled to an arresting video Howick band Glass Owls caught the attention of Dave Dobbyn's manager Lorraine Barry. Thanks in part to Barry's eye for a plan Glass Owls have… Audio

Thomas Talhelm of the University of Virginia reckons that some of the differences between Western and Eastern cultures can be explained by the crops they grow. Audio