Shin Dong Hyuk, the North Korean prison camp survivor who has admitted that parts of his well-known tale are inaccurate, has urged his supporters to continue.

Pushing the Treaty process beyond its natural limitations is spawning unintended consequences for our constitution. It is encroaching on equal citizenship.

So far we've identified the achievements of the Treaty settlement and reconciliation process, and flagged that the process is now being pushed beyond the point of being useful.

Australian PM Tony Abbott has been mocked online for saying women are "particularly focused on the household budget".

The UN's refugee agency has revealed "the most lethal route in the world" after a record number of deaths.

Middle-aged home buyers face being locked out of the property market because banks are worried they are too old to pay off their mortgage before they retire.

The southern French city of Marseille has been forced to scrap a system of yellow triangles intended to help spot homeless people after it was accused of employing Nazi-style tactics.

'It's a hotbed for the degradation of women.' A number of sexual assaults has seen several US colleges move to suspend fraternities.

Experts are warning employers advertising for "young" staff" could be in breach of the Human Rights Act.

Prime Minister John Key won't rule out sending New Zealand's elite SAS personnel to assist US efforts to counter Islamic State militants in Iraq or even Syria.

Prime Minister John Key is expecting to receive advice over the coming weeks on further assistance New Zealand could offer to help counter the terrorist group Isis.

As the judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial was training to qualify, she changed her name from Matilda to Thokozile - the Zulu word meaning happy.

NFL player Michael Sam told reporters that he hoped in future he would be seen "as Michael Sam the football player, instead of as Michael Sam the gay football player".

A Queenstown man says he is subjected to taunts over his sexuality, which he likens to racism, every time he goes out in the resort at night.

Anxiety and anger remained a toxic cocktail in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson last night as demands for the arrest of the police officer who shot Michael Brown grew louder.

Most New Zealanders take their rights for granted, but they're rights often not realised by disabled people, writes Paul Gibson.

Police have said sorry for the raids on the Tuhoe people in 2007 but there will be no ministerial apology for what happened.

Two Aucklanders who share the name Wong have different opinions on Winston Peters' "two Wongs" joke.

The spate of race baiting, ethnic slurs and off-colour jokes that have marred this year's election campaign continued yesterday.

How to explain Peters' "two Wongs don't make a right" excuse for a joke, writes John Armstrong.

The days of the military strongman are on the wane around the world - few people would be sad about that.

Prime Minister John Key is rejecting claims the Government is too soft on Israel and should expel the Israeli Ambassador.

They were NZ's first legally married same-sex couple, but now it seems Melissa Ray and Tash Vitali have called it quits after less than a year.

Social media has become one of the weapons of war. The Israeli army, which has been on Twitter since 2009, now has 286,000 followers.

Washington has warned Israel against any ground invasion of Gaza, as the UN says more than 40 of the 176 dead were children.

Actress Angelina Jolie will visit the asylum seeker detention centre on Nauru in a move likely to put further international pressure on the Australian Government's harsh policies.