Mark Lundy leaves prison, SUVs carrying speed cameras to hit the roads next week, and how every family has a Prince Harry.
1 How every family has a Prince Harry
While few of us can relate to a feud over royal duties, tell-all memoirs and the right (or not) to top-level security, the festering situation between Prince Harry and his family is infinitely applicable to the average Joe, with studies showing that one in four of us are estranged from a parent or sibling.
But while adult family alienation is common, it's far from trivial, potentially having a profound impact on the wider family and on future generations as well.
2 Convicted double murderer Mark Lundy leaves prison
Convicted double murderer Mark Lundy has been released from Tongariro Prison.
He was granted parole last month, but the date for his release from prison was suppressed until noon on Wednesday. Corrections confirmed he had left about 6am.
Where he would live and who he would live with were also suppressed.
3 India fires missiles across frontier with Pakistan, officials say
India fired missiles into Pakistani-controlled territory in several locations early Wednesday, killing at least eight people, including a child, Pakistani authorities said. India said it was striking infrastructure used by militants.
Tensions have soared between the nuclear-armed neighbours over last month's militant attack on tourists in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
India has blamed Pakistan for backing the militant attack, which Islamabad has denied.
4 SUVs carrying speed cameras to hit the roads next week
Mobile speed cameras inside SUVs will be stationed on New Zealand roadsides from next week.
New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi announced that from Tuesday, May 13, camera-equipped SUVs would park on sides of roads across Auckland, and later nationwide, to record speeding drivers.
The agency also planned to add trailers to its speed camera vehicle fleet later in the year.
5 Carney says Canada 'not for sale' at Oval Office meeting with Trump
US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faced off in the Oval Office overnight and showed no signs of retreating from their gaping differences in an ongoing trade war that has shattered decades of trust between the two countries.
The two kept it civil, but as for Trump's calls to make Canada the 51st state, Carney insisted his nation was "not for sale" and Trump shot back, "time will tell".
ONE STICKY SITUATION
A Kentucky woman was in a sticky mess when she found stacks of boxes containing lollipops on her front doorstep.
The surprise delivery was ordered by her young son while he played on her phone.
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