An uncle of Chris and Cru Kahui today denied threatening that "somebody would get a bullet" if they talked to police about the night the baby twins suffered their fatal injuries.

One of England's biggest police forces is tweeting every incident it deals with over a 24-hour period to give the public an idea of the workload officers face.

The reaction to what Paul Henry said is far more destructive than the remarks themselves, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

The King's student who supplied James Webster with two bottles of spirits the night he died can now be named.

Secondary school sex education lessons have certainly undergone a change over the years.

Pro-choice advocates have welcomed the acquittal of a Cairns couple charged over a home abortion and have called on the Queensland Government to reform the law.

Police Commissioner Howard Broad says New Zealand should remain a routinely unarmed police force - and that is something to be proud of.

No area of medicine has advanced more rapidly, nor created more controversy, than the treatment of infertility.

The first German exhibition since the Second World War to deal exclusively with Hitler and Nazism opens in Berlin.

A warning for pregnant or menstruating women to stay away from an exhibit tour is just an advisory and women could decide to ignore it, Arts, Chris Finlayson says.

Feminists have criticised a rule forbidding pregnant or menstruating women to attend a Te Papa exhibit.

The perception of cronyism, corruption and drugs has been a factor in the declining racing industry, and integrity must be restored for the industry to thrive, Racing Minister John Carter says.

Far-right extremists hurled molotov cocktails at marchers in a Gay Pride parade in Europe.

Health organisations are alarmed at how the internet is being used to promote smoking.

It hits your nostrils first - the pungent smell of rotting fruit, mashed dog faeces and mounting rubbish by the roadside.