A group of "old, fat and ugly" flight attendants failed to sue a popular Russian airline.

Woman cried during encounter and her new wife's hands shook as she signed marriage forms.

An Auckland councillor has complained to the Human Rights Commission over a shop's sign.

Older people and women are paid less for their work, on average. So what can employees do?

Nellie Pemberton "fell for his blue eyes" when she met the love of her life.

Visits to museums are fraught with anxiety, writes Pamela Wade.

A group of senior employees picked out their favourite women before singing karaoke.

A victim of the first person prosecuted for infecting others with HIV opposes court cases.

Auckland Grammar told a boy to cut his hair or go elsewhere. But James hasn't given up.

Years ago, a Maori boy was caught stealing lollies at the local Four Square. A report labelled him a "thug". He was 10 years old, writes Dame Susan Devoy.

Confronting footage shows the moment a stranger unleashed on a Muslim woman at an Australian mall.

Today, we talk to Prue Kapua, partner at Tamatekapua Law and national president of the Maori Women's Welfare League.

The Herald this week marks the launch of Super Diverse Woman. Today we talk to Barbara Ala'alatoa.

We talk to Charmeyne Te Nana-Williams of What Ever it Takes, a home-based rehabilitation and support services organisation.

Law and order looks set to be a major part of this year's election campaign, so is it instead time to re-assess whether the prison system really works?

The Herald this week marks the launch of Super Diverse Women. Today, Lincoln Tan talks to a laywer who came to New Zealand from Pakistan.

Despite having better work ethics, refugee and immigrant millennials (RIM) still struggle to get good jobs in New Zealand, a study has found.

Rez Gardi came to NZ under the refugee quota system. After spending nearly 20 years in Auckland, Gardi says she still feels like a second class citizen.

As a New Zealander with Chinese ancestry, writer and actor Helene Wong shares her experience of diversity in NZ.

A teenager from America's Deep South who claims her family disowned her over her boyfriend's skin colour has raised almost $50,000 in a crowdfunding campaign.

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.

Travellers with valid visas and green cards have reportedly been prevented from boarding flights and turned away at US border control.