A controversial church leader and critic of homosexuality has made peace with a prominent transgender adversary as she battles kidney disease.

It has been hailed as a Schindler's List for slavery, a long-overdue unflinching confrontation by Hollywood of the "original sin" on which the United States was founded.

Dutch museums are trying to trace the owners of a unexpectedly high number of art pieces that were confiscated by the Nazis over 70 years ago.

New Zealand is among the top 10 best places to be a woman, according to a worldwide report on gender equality.

A New Zealand church has been let off the hook for forbidding a gay man from becoming a priest.

Television presenter Gozde Kansu has been sacked for wearing a low-cut dress during a show.

It was less than two weeks ago, on August 28, that we saw the 50th anniversary of the landmark march on Washington - the historic event that ended in Dr Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, a watershed for race relations in the US.

The widow of the man slain while working at a stop-go sign was forced to prove she hadn't killed him before life insurance was paid.

After almost 43 years married to George Taiaroa, Dr Taiaroa knew her husband was dead even before returning the call to the policeman.

The International Olympic Committee will consider dropping Russian pole vault star Yelena Isinbayeva as an Olympic ambassador after her comments about gay people, says president Jacques Rogge.

President Barack Obama was set to lead civil rights pioneers Wednesday in a ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech roused the 250,000 people who rallied there decades ago for ra

The head of New Zealand's third-largest church has asked its ministers to consider a temporary ban on gay marriages to preserve the church's "peace and unity".

The taxi driver racially abused in an alarming outburst caught on camera has returned to work, but the unsavoury incident has persuaded him to leave the industry.

A complaint against broadcaster Michael Laws over his comments about the treatment of dementia patients has not been upheld by the Broadcasting Standards Authority.

Race-based abuse is a fact of life in the taxi industry, says an Indian taxi driver injured in a brutal attack.

The Southland man who today escaped criminal charges for a foul-mouthed anti-Islamic rant has written a formal apology expressing shame for his "terrible words".

The Invercargill taxi driver who was subjected to a foul-mouthed anti-Islamic rant by a drunk passenger has taken a further three days off work due to stress.

The racist taxi passenger has been invited to an 'Islam open day' after his rant was caught on video, but there's no sign of him in Invercargill today.

The man at the centre of a racism controversy was told to stay away from work, as he made a tearful apology to the boss of the taxi driver he abused.

Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt says residents were generally "very tolerant'' of immigrants, after a racist rant against a taxi driver in the city was caught on camera.

A Pakistan-born taxi driver was subjected to a torrent of foul-mouthed abuse - and it's all been caught on camera.

Despite race having been excluded from the trial's evidence, many Americans believe Zimmerman racially profiled Trayvon Martin, and that if Trayvon had been white, Zimmerman would've never questioned him in the first place.

It's been a breakthrough week for the grievance industry with a white man claiming that racial discrimination was behind his sacking as Australian cricket coach.

US President Barack Obama appealed for calm after an acquittal in the killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin, saying: "a jury has spoken.''

A couple embroiled in a battle with Immigration to prove their love is real are moving to the South Island to keep their dream of remaining in the country alive.