A $5 million a year study has found that 40 per cent of the babies born in Auckland and the Waikato in the past year were "accidents".

Bono is in Auckland this week, but his wife Ali Hewson has been busy in Africa relaunching their ethical fashion company.

Police and Eden Park officials have vowed to enforce liquor bans better following the "shambles" at the back-to-back rugby league tests.

More can be done to improve the tax system to promote economic growth, says Treasury secretary John Whitehead.

Police and agencies are working with schools and parents after a group of young people were caught playing what is thought to be a lethal choking game.

The greater the gap between rich and poor, the more likely people will grow up a drug user, a criminal, less educated, obese, pregnant while a teenager, even less trusting of others.

In Cambodia, as in other parts of the globe, orphanages are a booming business trading on guilt.

Dropping the kids off in Ellerslie, Peter snapped a school bus giving the thumbs-up to Jim Beam.