Leading doctors in Britain will today demand tough government action to curb the nation's addiction to unhealthy food.

Fear of foreigners is the new fashion in our island hideaway.

Rugby World Cup Minister Murray McCully has accepted Andy Haden's resignation from his role as ambassador.

Andy Haden's role as Rugby World Cup Ambassador "is over" following his latest outburst.

A New Zealand judge has ruled that advertisements for Pokerstars.net and the Asia Pacific Poker Tour run on TV3 and C4 were not promoting online gambling.

More than half of Kiwis are okay with mothers breastfeeding in public, but a minority still prefer babies be fed in the restroom.

Five years after the terror attacks on London's public transport system, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reflects on what's been learned.

There's no simple job description for fatherhood, but Mangere first-time dad Daniel Brown knows the kind of dad he doesn't want to be.

Drunk youths are turning up at Auckland emergency rooms at the rate of almost one a day, says the ADHB.

The Government is moving to increase maximum sentences for knife-related offences while beefing up education and placing restrictions on the sale of knives.

Australia's prime minister is expected to introduce a new border-protection policy this week as the government struggles to cope with boatloads of illegal asylum seekers who have filled an offshore detention center and fueled political deba

A double-pronged aid effort is getting up a head of steam in Tuvalu this week, as more than 300 New Zealand Defence Force staff descend on the tiny nation north of Fiji and nearly 4000km from New Zealand.

It is a brave woman to demand that abortions are removed from the Crime Act, writes Dita de Boni.

The United Nations has decided to set up a single, powerful body to promote equality for women around the world.