One of the country's most notorious killers has told one of his victims what she has waited nearly 15 years to hear.

A sex offender supposed to be under constant monitoring was allegedly found in bed with a 14-year-old girl.

A 24-year-old Christchurch fisherman broke into the home of a woman he met months earlier on an internet dating site and sexually assaulted her, a court was told today.

Julian Assange fears that he will be sent to Guantanamo Bay and ultimately executed if he is extradited to Sweden, his lawyers say.

Three years after a damning report, too many long-serving officers still believe the old ways don't need to change. The minister's message says they are wrong.

Police Minister Judith Collins has given a sharp warning to her senior officers to speed up the "culture change" required by the Bazley inquiry into police sexual misconduct three years ago.

Moshe Katsav, a former president of Israel, was convicted on two counts of raping an employee while he was a cabinet minister

'Calling me a 'socialite' is such a lazy way for journalists to undermine me,' says Jemima Khan.

A couple accused of torturing their nine-year-old daughter appeared briefly in court this morning.

New claims emerged last night that the nine-year-old girl allegedly tortured by her parents was also sexually abused while in Child Youth and Family care.

Bianca Jagger pushed her way through the scrum as a man with a megaphone repeated "exposing war crimes is no crime".

An HIV-positive man who sexually abused two children under 12 after serving time in jail for a similar offence has avoided an indefinite jail term.