Fresh insight into secretive kingdom reveals the extent of the regime's use of kids as slaves. Here, two teens tell their stories.

An Auckland mother living with HIV says ending new HIV infections here by 2025 is not impossible, but it will require "an incredible amount" of effort.

In a Western world fast embracing a darker view of Islam, a German sports hero has suddenly fallen from heights it took a lifetime to achieve.

President Donald Trump denounced arguments against his immigration order as "disgraceful".

A leaked draft order allowing discrimination against anything not strictly Christian reportedly awaits Donald Trump's signature.

Fed up with people posting insensitive selfies at Berlin's Holocaust memorial, an artist has come up with a clever way to out the offenders.

The Prince of Wales has warned the world is in danger of "forgetting the lessons of the past" in a speech about the Holocaust.

A young Kiwi couple's dream to see America has been dashed - at least temporarily - by Donald Trump's ban on visitors from seven majority-Muslim nations.

Since opening their first GP practice in Otara, Ranjna Patel and her husband Kanti have built New Zealand's largest independent primary healthcare group.

A woman has been caught on camera repeatedly banging on car windows after noticing a Muslim woman inside wearing a face covering.

Seasoned travellers have been sharing their worst experiences of racism encountered in various countries around the world, in a shocking online thread.

Morocco has banned the sale and construction of burqas because of security concerns, the country's media has reported.

Muslims girls in Switzerland must not be exempt from mixed swimming lessons, the European Court of Human Rights has said in a groundbreaking ruling.

Campground owners have been forced to increase security as freedom campers are parking nearby, then waltzing in and using their facilities for free.

A US dude ranch owner is being sued over her demands for an African-American chef to only serve "black people food" to her guests.

A newly-wed couple say they have been overlooked by Tauranga landlords more than 30 times over fears their cuisine would leave a lingering smell.

White supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan will hold a victory party to celebrate Donald Trump's win over Hillary Clinton.

A man who catcalled a flight attendant during a safety demonstration has been thrown off an Alaska Airlines plane.

COMMENT: NZ's consistent arrest, conviction and imprisonment stats cannot be explained away by invoking class alone.

A town in Pennsylvania has rallied to kick out their mayor after he posted a bunch of racist Facebook memes.

COMMENT: Of all the reactions arising from the investigation into the Chiefs' stripper scandal, the most apt was issued by the woman involved.

COMMENT: Spend any length of time in the US and you realise that the Star-Spangled Banner is not an anthem to be dishonoured lightly.

New Zealand Police attempts to recruit more women have been successful and rewarded.

COMMENT: Is Donald Trump experiencing a mental illness? That's the question making the rounds these days.

The Muslim woman told it was a "waste of time" applying for a position if she wouldn't take off her head scarf has been given a chance at a job.

Asian families are more vulnerable than other Kiwis despite doing reasonably well financially, a new report says.

Saturday marks 30 years since that milestone in the gay rights movement, an anniversary that will be celebrated in Parliament tonight.

Airbnb is facing new accusations of discrimination after a transgender woman was denied a rental by a host.

A black American man's video slamming racism he's experienced while living in China has gone viral.