Former Catholic brother Bernard McGrath will be extradited to Australia to face 252 child sex-abuse charges.

Police have released a sketch drawing of a man alleged to have raped and beaten a 16-year-old girl in Auckland, before dropping her in the Auckland Zoo car park.

The results of a ministerial inquiry into the case of a Malaysian diplomat who left the country with immunity are "disappointing", Foreign Minister Murray McCully says.

Bill Cosby's wife has defended her husband in the face mounting allegations of sexual misconduct and condemned the way he's been portrayed in the media.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has called on social networks to do more to tackle gender inequality online.

When the call came, a friend, a University of Virginia freshman who earlier said she had a date that evening with a handsome junior from her chemistry class, was in hysterics

An international police inquiry may begin into a retired teacher living in New Zealand who is at the centre of allegations of child abuse at a Tasmanian school in the 1960s.

A former teacher living in New Zealand has denied a child abuse claim made at an Australian inquiry.

Taxi-hailing service Uber has been banned in Delhi after one of its drivers allegedly raped a female passenger.

She duped Irish and Canadian authorities with horrific tales of being a child sex abuse victim. Now a 26-year-old Aussie is being sent back home.

A former Malaysian High Commission staffer accused of assaulting a Wellington woman at her home has failed in his bid to have his bail conditions relaxed.

Jailed pedophile Rolf Harris has abandoned his push to appeal 12 convictions for sexually assaulting four girls in the United Kingdom.

A 14-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in a "brazen" daylight attack in Papakura, police say.

A man who attempted to sexually violate a tourist in Westport in June has been sentenced to four years and eight months in prison, without parole.

An Air Force Sergeant is accused of more than a decade of sexual offending against five girls, including one who was allegedly bound in a car with a seatbelt and raped.

Nine years after The Cosby Show star settled out of court with an alleged victim of sexual assault, a string of fresh claims have been made about the 77-year-old comedian's past.

A complaint has been lodged with police against a former politician who tweeted the name of a prominent Otago man who has permanent name suppression.

Every year 3500 convictions will be recorded against men for assaults on women. The majority of these horrific incidents are preventable.

The rich, the famous, the powerful, the connected, all know the name of the "prominent New Zealander" charged with indecent assault.

This week, the world was introduced to pickup-artist Julien Blanc. He's a guy to whom even Robin Thicke would say, "Whoa. Dude. What the hell?".

An overseas student who was grabbed around the neck and dragged towards a car managed to lash out at her attacker to escape.

Former Waipukurau ambulance officer Christopher Roger King has been found guilty on all charges by a jury at Napier District Court.

A jury is now considering the fate of an former St John officer accused of sexually assaulting four women in the back of his ambulance.

The prominent New Zealander granted name suppression over his sexual offending has a profile on an online dating website.

Three women have bicycle-locked themselves to the Auckland central police station, in protest against the police decision not to prosecute the Roast Busters.

More than $1 million has been awarded for two new studies that will investigate rape culture in New Zealand - and why few victims are going to the police.