One of two teens severely injured in a brutal assault in an Auckland park has spoken for the first time of the night he almost died.

A professional rugby player facing assault charges after a bar incident in October cannot be named, despite a judge lifting a suppression order.

A customer who ran up a $5500 drug debt was kidnapped, beaten and forced to hand over his car by the "heavies" employed to collect the money.

A vicious attack on a disabled Canadian tourist in Sydney has made headlines across Canada.

The man suspected of killing an Auckland taxi driver told his flatmates in the days following the murder that a badly injured leg was caused by a game of basketball.

Questions have been raised about the monitoring of the online activity of sex offenders, after a murder in Britain.

A baby owes its life to its grandmother who intervened during her own daughter's attempt at infanticide.

A man who was out walking his dogs says one of the pets led him to a severely injured teenager who had been attacked in a park with his girlfriend.

Mystery still surrounds the death of an Indian toddler in Melbourne.