When Confederate forces fired the first shots at Fort Sumter on April 12, 150 years ago, triggering the American Civil War, almost four million African Americans were slaves.

Meadowlands, a shopping centre in one of the most Chinese parts of Auckland, tells a story of how NZ is...

Pauline Hanson has failed in her bid to be elected to the upper house of the NSW parliament.

Yet another scandal has rocked the Australian military.

The 17-yr-old son of a former Cabinet minister says he struggled as a closet homosexual boarder at King's College.

An amendment to stalking laws is expected to be introduced in the Victorian state Parliament tomorrow.

Testosterone-fuelled drivers will benefit from bid to erase gender inequality.

TV psychologist Nigel Latta is under fire for his use of the word mental.

A tribunal has upheld a race discrimination complaint against a legal definition used to deny disaster recovery payments and social security to thousands of New Zealanders living in Australia.

Jewish people in France say they are well used to anti-Semitism.

Marriage equality was the dominant theme of the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade.

Christian Dior fired John Galliano today after an online video clip circulated around the world showing its star designer shouting anti-Semitic abuse at people in a Paris bar.

There's no place for the Gordon Ramsay approach.

A job ad for a "male nude handyman" is breaking employment law - but not because of the nudity, an employment lawyer says.

A lesbian couple have been targeted by arson and had anti-gay slurs graffitied on their property.