Both major parties are promising fundamental changes to the way rape cases are prosecuted - and that has some legal experts concerned.

A Hastings man has pleaded guilty to a brutal sexual assault on an 87-year-old woman in her home last year and another sexual attack on the same day.

An English television presenter has described how convicted predator Rolf Harris groped her on live television while she was interviewing him in the mid-1990s.

The Social Development Minister is promising that any NZ women molested by disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris will have their claims fully investigated.

What a complete cock-up on the part of our Foreign Affairs officials over the case of the Malaysian diplomat who has been accused of burglary and sexual assault.

eBay is reviewing the sale of artwork and other items associated with Rolf Harris following his conviction for child sex offences this week.

Over a dozen NZ women have told Maggie Barry they were also indecently assaulted by Rolf Harris - and one is considering an official complaint to police after years of silence.

Rolf Harris has been sentenced to five years and nine months in prison on 12 charges of indecently assaulting four girls.

Australia's Anglican priests will be free to report serious crimes revealed to them during confessions, ending a church law that has its roots in the 12th century.

For once, Prime Minister Tony Abbott spoke for all Australians.

Murray McCully says it was "good and proper process" for him to leave the case of a Malaysian diplomat accused of sex crimes to authorities for seven weeks.

Stewart Murray Wilson has been declined parole because he still poses an undue risk to the community, the Parole Board has decided.

The Malaysian Government asked NZ to drop all charges and seal the court record of an official accused of sexual assault, documents released by NZ officials show.

The Harris family was accused of making staged entrances at Southwark Crown Court, as if to present a united front for the benefit of the media.

The Malaysian Government asked New Zealand to drop all charges against a diplomat accused of sexual assault, newly released documents show.

Prime Minister John Key says Government wanted a diplomat accused of sexual assault to face charges in New Zealand.

A diplomat accused of a sex crime was ordered out of New Zealand after invoking full diplomatic immunity.

Justice Minister Judith Collins will head to a summit on ending sexual violence, which is being chaired by Hollywood star and UN Special Envoy Angelina Jolie.

Rolf Harris's older brother and manager Bruce says he "wasn't trying to get her to change her story" when he rang a witness in his brother's sex trial.

No charges will be laid against a group of rugby players accused of raping a young woman while they were in Wanganui for a match last year.

To his alleged victims, Rolf Harris is a dirty old man and serial abuser. But to those standing by the embattled entertainer he's warm, friendly and a 'great hugger'.

Rolf Harris has been accused of deliberately lying to the jury in his child sex trial after video emerged of him at a celebrity sporting event in Cambridge in 1978.

Police are being independently investigated after detectives botched a rape trial late last year.

Rolf Harris will continue to give evidence from the witness box next week after his child sex abuse trial was delayed by legal argument.

Rolf Harris appeared tetchy at times during his third day in the witness box which started with him acknowledging his daughter was "beside herself" over an abuse claim.

Rolf Harris has admitted in a London court that he may have sexually admired his daughter's 13-year-old friend when she joined his family on an overseas holiday.

'Don't hold it against him', said the judge of the sketches Rolf Harris had been making in court during his sex trial after concerns by jurors.