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Highlights from live performances by Wellington-based singer-songwriter Hollie Smith and the Brooklyn based eight-piece band Red Baraat. Audio

Ukraine's President says Russian forces have invaded the war-torn east of the country and the United Nations' Security Council has called an emergency session in New York, as the crisis intensifies. Audio

American writer Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild, about hiking 1,700 kilometres up the Pacific Crest Trail in the aftermath of her mother's sudden death, became a New York Times bestseller.

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The U.S. Open at Flushing Meadows in New York is underway. Audio

Architectural writer and commentator who will visit New Zealand for the WORD Christchurch Writers Festival. Audio

Bank of America has agreed to pay a record $US16.7 billion to United States authorities for misleading investors about the quality of loans it sold. The loans were sold by Countrywide Financial and… Audio

Tuvalu Prime Minister has clear goals for when he co-chairs a key climate change meeting in New York next month. Audio

The New Zealand golfer, Lydia Ko, has just one more chance in 2014 to become the youngest ever winner of a major after finishing third at the LPGA Championship in New York. Audio

Shihad's Jon Toogood and Karl Kippenberger talk with Sam Wicks about breaking up and making up with Jaz Coleman and the making of their new album FVEY Audio

He's performed at the White House and he's the first New Zealander to be accepted into the prestigious Juilliard School to study dance in New York. Joshua Guillemot-Rodgerson has completed his first… Audio

David Doubilet began snorkeling at age eight and by age 12 he was taking underwater pictures on a Brownie Hawkeye camera stuffed into a rubber anesthesiologist bag. He's gone on to become one of the… Audio

Jerry Schultz and Robert Schoenholt opened Slug's Saloon in New York's Lower East Side in 1964, providing a raw alternative to Manhattan's glitzy jazz clubs and attracting a who's who of 60s jazz… Audio

Gosia Piatek doesn't feel very 'Kiwi,' especially where her work ethic and hunger are concerned. On the communication-front she is also very direct-a trait she readily puts down to her 'European'… Audio

He's gone from small town New Zealand to high fashion in New York. His name is Sean Kelly and the 25-year-old designer is the first New Zealander to compete in the American hit TV show Project Runway… Audio

Nicola Twilley of The Edible Geography blog has just been in China reporting on the country's refrigeration boom for The New York Times. Audio

Sharon Moalem is an award winning geneticist, scientist and New York Times bestselling author. His work focusses on bringing together genetics, biology, and medicine to explain how the human body… Audio

Topics - Labour's David Shearer is puzzled about the latest twist in the Malaysian diplomat case. Why was an email to Foreign Minister Murray McCully about former diplomat Muhammed Rizalman bin Ismail… 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

A recent interview featured New York journalist and author Nina Teicholz who says "fat is not the enemy", and that our long-held beliefs about fat don't add up. Today Professor Rod Jackson helps us… Audio

Journalist Nina Teicholz has written for the New Yorker, the Economist, and the New York Times. She says the F-word - Fat - is not the enemy, and that our long-held beliefs about fat don't add up… Audio

Maia Szalavitz is a former drug addict, now addiction and mental health specialist. She visited New Zealand to research her new book on synthetic cannabanoids and New Zealand's Psychoactive Substances… Audio

New York-based choreographer Larry Keigwin is back working with the Royal New Zealand Ballet for their 'Allegro' performances, which features Five Short Ballets by a diverse group of leading… Audio

Our Middle East correspondent, three weeks into the latest conflict between Hamas and Israel, is Fares Akram. Fares is a Palestinian journalist who lives in Gaza and writes for publications such as… Audio

Aotearoa's own Kimbra who, having not played in New Zealand for some time, pulls a vibrant, young and very large crowd. Also hear Brooklyn, New York based band, Red Baraat ignite the audience with… Audio

Ngati Ruanui says it's opposing an appeal to the High Court by a company, which wants to mine iron sand from the south Taranaki coast; A Maori carver is aiming to bless Auckland, a city he describes… Audio

The retiring National list MP, Tau Henare, says he's going to miss the buzz he gets from politics; Ngati Ruanui says it's opposing an appeal to the High Court by a company, which wants to mine iron… Audio

Tenor Oliver Sewell is the fourth of six Lexus Song Quest Finalists for 2014. It'll be one of Oliver's final New Zealand performances before he moves to New York to attend the Manhattan School of… Audio

Describing herself as a slightly wrinkled Aucklander heading for her 60s, while visiting the state of New York, Prue Scott bought into the hype and hopped on a bus to head to an American outlet mall. Audio