Legalising euthanasia has won huge support from readers of nzherald.co.nz, reflecting the earlier findings of scientific public opinion polls.

A terminally-ill Auckland doctor gives his argument for the legalisation of euthanasia in NZ.

A doctor who has just months to live after being diagnosed with a terminal illness says it's time for euthanasia to be legalised.

Syria has forbidden the country's students and teachers from wearing the niqab - the full Islamic veil.

NZ is still only a middling performer when it comes to parental leave provisions, according to a study.

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

At least six boatloads of asylum seekers have considered heading for New Zealand in the past year, says Prime Minister John Key.

Tobacco giant Philip Morris has admitted that child workers have been subjected to long hours working on Kazakhstan tobacco farms it deals with.

Rower Rob Hamill hopes to meet the Khmer Rouge henchman who ran the prison where his brother Kerry was tortured and killed.

Asian women lured to NZ with cash offers to work in the sex industry are being forced to work in slave-like conditions, a Herald investigation finds.

Good on Pete Bethune, writes Matt McCarten.

Anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune has arrived back in New Zealand, ending his five month-long nightmare.

A deal negotiated with the Japanese resulted in a suspended sentence for anti-whaling activist Pete Bethune, but means he won't be on the next Sea Shepherd protest.

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.

The Chicago City Council on Friday approved what city officials say is the strictest handgun ordinance in the United States