The Human Rights Commission says Maori Party MP Hone Harawira needs to consider whether his personal feelings are helpful to race relations.

Paul Henry says he feels "37 and three months" and has the hair of a 40-year-old.

John Key says it is "ridiculous" that MP Hone Harawira would not be happy about his children dating Pakeha.

To anyone who pictures Warsaw as a cold, grey, conservative city, yesterday offered an antidote.

One of the country's most famous rugby clubs is under fire for hiring topless models to raffle underwear at its annual fundraiser earlier this week.

Mel Gibson faces potential jail time if Los Angeles sheriffs find evidence supporting his former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva's claims the Australian-raised Oscar winner assaulted her.

Teams of police patrolled streets in the western region of Xinjiang last night as stringent security was imposed for the one-year anniversary of China's worst ethnic violence in decades.