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

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.

ALl the grisly details of Julian Assange's sexual misadventures in Sweden are coming out.

Police were this afternoon continuing inquiries into events leading to the deaths of a man and a woman overnight after a reported domestic incident.

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.

The mother of WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange says she is worried he will not get a fair trial following his arrest in London.

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.