Julian Assange thought his trip to Sweden would help him find a safe home with some of the toughest source protection in the world - but it could prove his undoing.

An alleged sex offender has been bailed to the same neighbourhood as his teenage accusers for a second time.

An exchange student who was drunk and comatose at a school party was allegedly subjected to a sexual act which was filmed and passed around school, the Ministry of Education has been told.

A former Marist teaching brother was today found guilty of 11 historic sex offences by a jury in the High Court at Wellington.

Elizabeth Smart is the perfect advertisement for one of the world's fastest-growing religions - Mormonism.

One of the country's youngest killers is back in jail, this time for the indecent assault of two female journalists.