PM John Key says an apology to Maori rugby players excluded from All Blacks tours to South Africa is a matter between unions.

Rugby officials hope their apology will consign a sorry chapter in New Zealand-South African relations to the history books.

Pita Sharples has criticised the NZRU's Maori appointees for advising against the union's apology today for past treatment of Maori players.

Two prominent Maori former All Blacks have welcomed NZRU's apology to Maori players, but one player from the 60s says the scars will never heal.

The decision to include caste in India's national census has triggered intense controversy about a painful, vexing subject.

Thousands of protesters rallied in cities across America demanding that President Obama tackle immigration reform immediately.

Aussie anti-immigration campaigner Pauline Hanson has put her Queensland home on the market - but not for everyone.

Hollywood, aromatic with the scent of gorgeous and available young women, still remains a sexualised and sexist ecosystem.

I apologise to the Maori people and the rugby players involved for the disgraceful injustice visited upon them between 1928 and 1960.

Desperate job-seeking Asians are taking on Anglicised first names and ditching their traditional surnames in an effort to find work in NZ.