US President Barack Obama has led an impassioned funeral service for a popular black minister and politician killed in a church massacre in South Carolina.

A white police officer in Texas has been suspended after video emerged of him drawing a gun at a pool party and throwing a black girl in a bikini to the ground.

Numbers of older students are dropping and Government cuts are to blame, says the national student union and lobby group Grey Power.

Caitlyn Jenner's courage has been welcomed by the world - but do gay women on our own sports fields feel just as accepted?

It was "a moment bigger than politics", declared the Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, introducing his same-sex marriage bill to the federal Parliament yesterday.

A Muslim woman has accused a US airline of discrimination after an attendent refused to give her an an unopened can of Diet Coke because it could be used "as a weapon".

The streak is as impressive as it is difficult to explain.

Italy is now the only western European country that does not recognise either same-sex marriage or civil unions.

The British university equality officer at the centre of a racism and sexism row could lose her job after she allegedly tweeted a hashtag 'kill all white men'.

A global study found that NZ has the highest number of 22-year-old males hiding they are gay and the second-highest number of lesbians concealing their sexuality.

The macho Kiwi rugby, racing and beer mentality is keeping gay sportspeople firmly in the cupboard.

More young Kiwis are hiding their sexuality than anywhere else in the world, a ground-breaking homophobia study shows.

An engineering firm that has a topless calendar and uses a bikini-clad model on the back of a delivery truck has been blasted as sexist by top scientist, Dr Michelle Dickinson.

A few years ago, I was returning by car to Washington from Baltimore when I took a wrong turn and got lost.

I was asking an American professor a complicated question about Anzus in a university lecture theatre when he started stroking my leg, writes Catriona MacLennan.

I looked back through the archives to see whether Minister for Women, Louise Upston, had ever, in fact, said or done anything actually worthwhile for the women of NZ, writes Dita De Boni.

Even after the fires were extinguished and the chaos quieted for much of the day, this city smouldered.

When Poppy Smart was wolf-whistled at by builders on her walk to work, she at first tried to ignore it.

Nicole Kidman is facing questions about her commitment to women's rights, after endorsing an airline accused over the alleged mistreatment of its female staff.

Pressure is mounting for the abolition of a law allowing Queenslanders who kill homosexuals to have a murder charge reduced by arguing that their victim propositioned them.

Kylie Jenner has come under fire for pictures she has posted to her Instagram account which people are claiming show her with “blackface”.

The country's top cop says he is pleased to see Kiwis standing up against racism after members of the public helped to identify a man who verbally attacked two foreign men on a bus.

The images aim to demystify and destigmatise the female body - to make viewers "realise these are just regular, normal processes," nothing to reject or shame

The Asia New Zealand Foundation has been surveying New Zealanders about their attitudes towards Asia for nearly two decades, capturing an evolving picture of our responses to demographic and economic....

We're led to believe it takes courage for sports stars to take a stand. It doesn't always.

New judge, new controversy: Images surface of new X Factor judge Shelton Woolright in blackface.

The instructions are for shirts made by Salvo Sports, who claim they were issued in response to “a number of buyers who ask how to treat fine jerseys”.

The broadcaster Alison Mau wrote a piece at the weekend about what she called "The curse of casual sexism".

America's top law enforcement official has delivered a scathing denunciation of the police department in Ferguson, the St Louis suburb at the centre of violent race protests last year, as a....

Fighting began in the key central Iraqi city of Tikrit, birthplace of the former dictator Saddam Hussein, as government forces and Shia militia launched a major assault to displace Isis jihadists.