New Zealand

Squeezed by high prices and low homeownership, the country's housing market has become a big concern for New Zealanders. As part of their solution, lawmakers took aim at buyers beyond their borders.

Jacinda Ardern, who assumed office last October, announced in January that she would be taking six weeks of maternity leave while her deputy stepped in to assume the duties of prime minister.

The country has a high rate of domestic violence, and it's one of the first places to pass a law granting paid leave to survivors.

Jacinda Ardern gave birth to a 7.3 pound baby girl in an Auckland hospital. Her pregnancy sparked a national conversation about working mothers.

In 2013, the government began a program to get rid the rodents from the subantarctic island, which is a World Heritage Site that is home to dozens of unique and endangered species.

At the time, New Zealand officials suggested to journalists that the bang of the teenager's gun was a sign falling over or firecrackers going off.

Passengers from the MV Butiraoi, a Kirabati ferry that sank more than a week ago, were picked up by New Zealand's military.

Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's youngest prime minister in 150 years, will become only the second female leader to give birth in the modern age.

Scientists have uncovered the fossil of an ancestral penguin off the east coast of New Zealand. It was one of the earliest known species of penguin and also one of the largest.

The 166-year-old yacht race, which has featured giant foiling catamarans in recent years, will return to monohulls in 2021. But the new boats are far from traditional.

When Ardern was elected Labour leader just 12 weeks ago, her party's polling numbers surged so rapidly it was dubbed "Jacindamania." She'll be the country's youngest prime minister in 150 years.

Jacinda Ardern had just been announced as the new leader of the Labour party, when a TV host asked her whether she felt like she had to make a choice between "having babies and having a career."