New Zealand

A 17-year-old smashed an egg on the head of the controversial Australian senator who made comments blaming the mass shooting in New Zealand on Muslim immigration.

At least one man opened fire during afternoon prayers at two mosques in the city of Christchurch. Police have charged a 28-year-old Australian with murder.

The shootings at mosques in New Zealand were live-streamed on Facebook, and shared on YouTube and Twitter. The companies have been challenged on their ability to remove this kind of content quickly.

On Friday, Muslim-Americans urged political leaders and tech companies to confront the spread of hate and racism that has led to scores of worshippers being slaughtered in religious institutions.

One of the most shocking aspects of the attack that left 49 people dead is that it happened in a country where low crime rates are a part of its identity.

The notion that there might be some new kind of killer whale emerged in 1955, when photos from New Zealand showed a bunch of unusual-looking whales stranded on a beach.

Anne-Marie Brady is a professor at the University of Canterbury, and says she has been the victim of a campaign of intimidation in her home country after publishing research critical of China.

Answers remain elusive for the country's Department of Conservation, which believes these incidents are not related. In the latest one, more than 50 pilot whales died in the remote Chatham Islands.

A hiker reported the mass stranding Saturday. By the time officials could reach the marine mammals, half were dead — and the rest were in such dire condition, they had to be euthanized.

The government says customs will search the phone in flight mode and not look at data stored in the cloud. But civil liberties advocates are calling the law "a grave invasion of privacy."

China has had a profound economic and political impact Down Under. Now Australia and New Zealand are taking steps to fight back.

Jacinda Ardern arrived in New York with her 3-month-old daughter, Neve, who has become the first-ever infant to attend the annual gathering of member nations.