School principals say the number of pupils turning up for breakfast is increasing daily, despite the collapse of one of the two main breakfast programmes...

A "red flag" identifying at-risk children for schools, doctors and police is expected to be floated by the Government.

Domestic violence, from psychological abuse to beatings, is our biggest problem.

The architect of tough benefit reforms in Britain will face a picket by Sue Bradford's Auckland Action Against Poverty.

The Independent's Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on the shocking realities of human trafficking.

Young women across Russia have been called on to show their support for Vladimir Putin by ripping off their clothes.

Mihingarangi Forbes' television interview with Alasdair Thompson raised an interesting issue.

A call to ban energy drink cans featuring overt sexual messages has been made by the National Council of Women.

People in the quiet seaside town of Opunake always wondered how a "lovely, kind and beautiful...

The man shot dead by police yesterday had just got out of jail for trying to cut the throat of the woman he held hostage.

A notorious NZ criminal has been awarded compensation for breach of privacy and hurt feelings.

There's a perennial debate as to whether certain sex differences in children are innate or learned.

Smoking - like overeating - can't be stopped merely by the will of authority.

One of NZ's major employers is looking at refusing to hire smokers, and an Auckland city ban...

Emily McKenzie says many women today see sex as something to brag about.

Half of all New Zealanders can still count their sexual alliances on their fingers, despite a claim that Kiwi women are the most promiscuous in the world.

It's hard to believe a grown man killed a five-year-old in his own defence - or even accidentally - but there you have it.

I make a point of not buying anything that isn't immediately wearable after drip-drying on a coat-hanger.

Many young Kiwi women are being sexually promiscuous because they feel a need to compete with men.