Depending on your time zone, you either woke up or went to bed (or did neither) with news that New Zealand had become the 13th country to legalize same-sex marriage.

New Zealand today became the first Asia-Pacific county to legalize same-sex marriage — and the 13th country overall to do so.

A New Zealand man who felt ripped off after learning that a scene from the trailer for the film Jack Reacher was not in the final film complained to the country's Advertising Standards Authority, demanding restitution.

A photo allegedly showing an infant child locked inside a car in New Zealand has shocked many, but police say they don't intend to investigate the matter any further.

Beachgoers rushed to save a young boy from drowning off the coast of Napier, New Zealand, yesterday, forming a human chain that helped pull the struggling lad back to shore.

When 30-year-old Natasha Harris of Invercargill, New Zealand, died of a heart attack three years ago, her family suspected the cause of death was linked to her extreme fondness for Coca-Cola.

If Gareth Morgan gets his way, the entire country of New Zealand could be cat-free within a matter of years.

Why can't you suits understand: Kim Dotcom is just a simple man with a simple website who's definitely not burning with rage at the government officials who raided his mansion and arrested him almost exactly a year ago today?

A three-legged dog who was spotted by a supermarket's surveillance camera helping himself to a treat from the pet food aisle has become an overnight sensation in his home country of New Zealand.

The Heritage Foundation has released its annual list of the world's freest economies and, wouldn't you know it, the Asia-Pacific region is number one. Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand are all on top while the world's largest economy, America's, barely cracks the top ten.

A New Zealand man who lost his sight after accidentally mixing vodka and diabetes medication was brought back from the brink of permanent blindness by a bottle of whisky.

A letter to the editor from a 14-year-old homeschooled teen named Jasmin was recently published in Canterbury, New Zealand's Northern Outlook, garnering stunned silence from most and lengthy rebuttals from others. The subject of the letter was homosexuality in general and the legalization of same-sex marriage in particular.

Doctors at Auckland City Hospital wouldn't go into how an eel the size of "a decent sprig of asparagus" became lodged up the backside of an unnamed patient, but said it was successfully extracted, and the man was discharged.

Elementary schoolers at the Uruti School in New Zealand helped dozens of dead possums achieve the goals they never achieved in life last weekend, and now people are giving them grief for it.

A recent study out of New Zealand, a Middle-earth soaked through to its very core with mead, has discovered that alcohol is often depicted in music videos.

After Frank was told that his lung cancer had spread to his heart and he had only months to live, he and his wife Wilma sold their house, canceled their health insurance, and put together a bucket list of things they wanted to do before death parted them.

A student drinking game that involves sitting in a tree and quaffing booze until you lose your balance and fall has become something of a sport in the city of Dunedin on New Zealand's South Island.

Literally. Brought to you by the New Zealand-based pizza chain Hell Pizza, the Pizza Roulette special is not for the faint of heart or palate. One out of the eight slices is laced with "the hottest chilli known to mankind," turning every pizza party into hazing night at a frat.

An adorable widdle home invader broke into Annette Swoffer's New Zealand domicile this weekend. It was a "really friendly" baby seal, and it came through the cat door. From Annette's shellshocked interview with the New Zealand Herald:

Bill Johnson, who made a failed bid for governor of Alabama in 2010, anonymously donated sperm to lesbian couples in New Zealand, according to a report by the New Zealand Herald.