Lisette Reymer

1 week ago | stuff.co.nz | Lisette Reymer |Verity Johnson |Michael Daly |Ripu Bhatia

When Jane Gregory met her husband Steve at a comedy night in Melbourne, she thought she had hit the romantic jackpot. He was handsome, clever and funny, and the two of them couldn’t stop chatting. The only catch? He was British and lived 10,000 miles away. What followed was a three-year-long, transcontinental relationship, a wedding, and eventually – for Gregory, anyway – a one-way ticket to London. At last, they were living together in wedded bliss.

1 week ago | stuff.co.nz | Lisette Reymer

Kiwi in Israel amid rising tensionsA Three News interview with a New Zealander in Tel Avivi was interrupted by a missile alert. Zamir Shatz-Stewart was being interviewed when his phone issued a warning about rocket fire. Since the missile strikes began five days ago, Shatz-Stewart said he has spent every night moving to and from the bunker in his home.

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Lisette Reymer

Lisette Reymer speaks with Ukraine's NZ ambassadorUkraine’s ambassador to New Zealand, Vasyl Myroshnychenko, says his country is prepared to share hard-won military knowledge and defence technology with New Zealand and believes Wellington could benefit significantly from Ukraine’s battlefield innovations.

3 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Lisette Reymer

Philippines builds new 'green city' to escape climate chaosSitting on a plush brown leather chair, Joshua Bingcang smiles and shuffles papers carrying notes he never refers to, as he stares out of his high rise office window, across hectares of beautiful wide open land and explains the “master plan”. The smile only broadens as he talks of it and before long, he’s on his feet, walking us through to a room filled with scaled models so he can actually show us key features of the master plan too.

3 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Alan Granville |Lisette Reymer |Jennifer Sinco Kelleher |Catrin Owen

Paris Louvre Museum: Higher entrance fee for non-EU visitors in 2026, Macron announcesIf art really imitates life then the masterpieces at many of the world’s most renowned museums should depict long lines, jam-packed galleries, dirty bathrooms, rude employees and miserable visitors. Iconic cultural institutions from Cairo to Paris to New York have earned a permanent slot on sightseeing itineraries. But popularity does not always equal impeccable performance.