Chris Brown's behaviour proves he doesn't deserve a ticket into New Zealand, writes Heather du Plessis-Allan.

The devastated mother of a Kiwi basketballer who narrowly survived yesterday's college massacre is rushing to be with her son.

Body parts bitten off, maimed from severe burns - experts believe the brutality of attacks on women by their male partners is worsening.

A former Immigration Minister says he would let Chris Brown into the country because it would cause no obvious harm.

The day after Parmita Rani left her controlling husband, he waited in the foyer of her central-Auckland language school to stab her to death.

South Africa's murder rate has increased for the third year running, with opposition groups saying the figures mirror "a country at war".

When his wife left him, Mandeep Singh bought knives and waited patiently in the foyer of her school until she finished her exam.

Logan Pillay was caught off-guard when a passenger punched him, causing him to flinch and drive into the back of the car in front of him.

Police have called for help in the search for a group of youths who "king-hit" on a man outside Denny's in Manukau, leaving him with serious head injuries.

Police want the public's help after a man was seriously injured when two younger men attacked him in a small Southland town.

Michael Murray hit Morris on the head with a sickle-like tool. Morris died seconds later in his partner Millie Elder-Holmes' arms.

A 51-year-old man was found by members of the public after being assaulted in Nelson just after 2pm.

An Upper Hutt man says he will never forgive the man he considered his best friend after he killed his mother in a frenzied and brutal axe attack.

A man and woman charged after the death of Taupo preschooler Moko Sayviah Rangitoheriri have had the charges upgraded from assault on a child to murder.

A New Zealander living in Vanuatu has appeared in court today facing charges for murdering a local man in what police describe as a vicious, drunken fight over a girl.

Father says finding killer will always hinge on someone coming forward with information as Ewen McDonald's lawyer says family "wasting money".

Lawyer Peter Coles says he's not surprised Kylee Guy has run out of money investigating her husband's death because he says she's focusing on the wrong man.

The mother of slain teenager Luke Tipene faces the prospect of reliving her son's death all over again at a second trial.

The judge in the Luke Tipene murder trial has told the jury the teenage defendant can be found guilty even if the act was unplanned and "instantly regretted".

A Taupo man who killed his partner in an "unprovoked and cowardly" hammer attack has told the woman's daughters he was enjoying prison.

A teenager deliberately stabbed a rugby league starlet in the neck and must have known death was likely, the Crown says.

A fight over a taxi left a young man lying in the middle of a central Auckland road with critical head injuries at the weekend.

Toxicology results from the second autopsy performed on Maggie Watson showed traces of chemicals or drugs in her system, her grandfather claims.

A 13-year-old boy convicted of manslaughter was supposed to be taken into CYF care a month before he killed an Auckland dairy owner last June.

The man accused of murdering a Christchurch toddler last month has been granted bail.

The friend of a teenager accused of stabbing an up-and-coming rugby league player has described seeing his mate's look of shock moments after the fatal incident.

An eleventh hour decision by a man who bashed his elderly mother to sack his lawyer was branded "disgusting" by his mother in court today.

Detectives probing the 2008 slaying of Mellory Manning have admitted being in a "legal limbo" while a gangster found guilty of being involved appeals his conviction.

Name suppression has lapsed for a man accused of bludgeoning an elderly man to death with a bottle.

We demand action. But equally we should be dispassionate and rational in demanding measures that seek to prevent these things occurring, writes Jarrod Gilbert.