Last week, Tourism New Zealand spokesman Ian Long made us look complete nincompoops when he launched a counter-attack on Hollywood actress Anna Faris.

As Toby Carroll begins his 49th day in a Dubai prison, his family fear his property career could already be ruined.

You know it's January when this story catches fire around the world. Newsflash: Horoscope dates have changed.

Model Priscila Ferreira is at the centre of a love triangle in which a Kiwi man is being held by Dubai police.

A British woman found in bed with a NZ man in a Dubai apartment had previously worked as lapdancer, a British newspaper reported today.

This week, the British Government has given its rubber stamp to two quite unique parenting ideas, writes Dita De Boni.

A great parenting debate is about to be reopened as authors publish books with clashing prescriptions. But will parents be any the wiser?

Youth Court judges are gearing up to make hundreds of orders a year directing young offenders and their parents to attend parenting programmes.

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have become the proud parents of a baby girl.

One of the main lessons Nikki Bodde has learned from the Incredible Years parenting programme is not to use the word "but".

Alex Reid is reportedly asking for a £700,000 ($1.4m) divorce settlement from Katie Price.

Labour is promising to extend paid parental leave and make Working for Families more generous for parents of under-2s.

I've very worried about the hinges of the door to my children's room. They are about to snap.

Thousands of New Zealand parents are going back to school to learn how to be better parents - but experts still do not know if the multiple programmes are reaching the parents who most need them.

Does she or doesn't she? Have a bun in the oven that is. Word around the water cooler is that Kate Hudson is pregnant.

Am I the only one already sick of Victoria Beckham's fourth pregnancy?

The Inception star and her French actor-and-director partner Guillaume Canet are expecting their first child together.

Mel Gibson wants Oksana Grigorieva immediately stripped of custody of their daughter.

David and Victoria Beckham are expecting their fourth child, it has been announced.

Government officials are understood to be compiling a shortlist of gift ideas for the April 29 nuptials.

What a mean-spirited bunch of commentators we've seen in this country, crawling out from under their rocks to spit upon the news that Sir Elton John became a father on Christmas Day.

A couple so desperate for a baby girl that they terminated twin boys are fighting to choose the gender of their next child.

In the end, it ended like they all do - he does, she does ... and then they were wed.