Almost 90 per cent of ACC claims for sex abuse counselling have been turned down or held for more information since rule changes last October.

Queensland's crime watchdog has slammed the way police handled the death in custody of Palm Island man Cameron Doomadgee.

I wonder how many of us will be telling our kids the cold truth about life: if you are good looking, your life will be easier.

The Royal Dutch Medical Association has adopted the view that the circumcision of underage boys violates their human rights.

Some call her the "Mother Teresa of Queen St" after the Mother Teresa medallion that she wears around her neck.

Good parenting, writes Dita De Boni, is not just about clothing, feeding and educating your children.

Police on Auckland's North Shore have a feeling their drink drive blitzes are working.

Police are worried by a rise in underage prostitution in downtown Auckland, where girls as young as 12 are selling themselves for sex.

Police say increasing numbers of girls as young as 12 are working as prostitutes in Auckland's city centre.

The Independent's Nick Duerden wonders why the UK has such different views on children in restaurants to the rest of Europe.

Short people suffer a greater rate of illness and death from heart disease, research has shown.