Iraqi government forces halted the fight for Mosul yesterday.

United Nations report appears to back claims SAS troops killed civilians in Afghani raid.

It's costing taxpayers almost $1m a year to keep Ashley Peacock behind locked doors.

NZ Herald Focus discusses the struggles of the people in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Kiwis are asked to stand up against the kind of racist attacks seen in President Donald Trump's America.

Posters for a "white rights" group believed to have been started in NZ were posted around Auckland University.

Sexual wellbeing of elderly ignored, finds study.

OPINION: They'd never had a woman on the footplate so I needed to be under 'supervision', says Rachel Stewart.

Millions more dollars have been invested by a Government superannuation fund in an international palm oil company embroiled in labour abuse allegations.

He says authorities are violating his human rights because they refuse to let him don a toupee.

Parliament will this week debate whether domestic violence victims should get extra paid leave, as the Women's Refuge presents new research.

A transgender athlete has been selected for this month's Australian International.

New Zealand has sought advice on deradicalisation from the Malaysian Government.

The true horror of Islamic State's mass killings may never fully be known.

Dame Susan Devoy has drawn a connection between Maori children taken from their families and placed in state homes and the numbers of Maori in prison.

For complicated reasons to do with war and politics, the only way in and out of the enclave controlled by Syria's Kurds is on a rusty

HIV-positive figure's condom-free message clashes with international medical advice.

COMMENT: I greatly resent Family First attempting to use experiences of sexual violence in order to advance its anti-trans agenda.

Treatment of autistic man Ashley Peacock raised in Amnesty International report on human rights concerns.

A female cyclist exacted her revenge on a catcaller who pestered her at a junction by chasing after him and ripping off his wing mirror.

A student leader has been awarded $18,000 compensation after a privacy breach.

Westpac has failed in its argument to the Privacy Commission that customers sign away their rights to privacy when they agree to the bank's "terms and conditions".

In the days after Trump's travel ban was issued, top executives at rival companies in Silicon Valley traded a flurry of candid emails to discuss the response.

A local English council has been ordered to pay damages after taking a week-old baby into care.

Russian media denied that chemical attacks had taken place, depicting rescue workers as jihadist militants and doctors as propagandist purveyors of "fake news".

New Zealanders who make racist attacks could soon be charged with committing a hate crime, the Police Commissioner has revealed.

COMMENT: NZ should press Nauru and Australia to fulfill their international obligations to refugee and asylum-seeking children.

Labour and Act say they will back a Green Party proposal to give domestic violence victims up to 10 days' paid leave.

Labour, Greens, Maori Party add weight to call for inquiry into claims of abuse of children in state care.

Riots have broken out in France after a black man was sexually assaulted by police - who claim it was an accident.