Labour and Maori Party strongholds will be hit if prisoners are stopped from voting, a prison reform group says.

Britain's government persuaded a judge to remove harsh criticisms of the country's domestic spy agency MI5 from a ruling.

Health officials are being accused of racism for deciding to transfer a mental health contract for Pacific people from Mangere's bankrupt Pacificare Trust to a mainstream agency.

Bollywood movie star Shah Rukh Khan appeared yesterday as the sum of all Australian airline passengers' fears.

Privacy concerns over a new airport passenger scanning system have been heightened after airport staff copied x-rays of an international film star.

Twenty years after the end of apartheid, F. W. de Klerk fends off accusations from some white South Africans that he gave South Africa away.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's nephew was fined.

A former Australian soldier has been sentence to death in Afghanistan for murdering an Afghan security guard and then accusing the Taliban for the crime.

The Crown is appealing a landmark Human Rights Review Tribunal decision enabling parents caring for severely disabled adult children to be paid.

US senators are urging US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to take more proactive steps in supporting organisations that promote 'Internet freedom' in countries such as Iran and China, where severe Internet restrictions are enforced.

A Sikh community leader refused entry into a cosmopolitan club because of his turban will take his fight to the Human Rights Commission.