The first lady has unveiled her public awareness campaign against childhood obesity in the US.

Party's MPs join chorus of condemnation at the permanent name suppression given to a Manawatu man who downloaded more than 300,000 pornographic images, many of them picturing children.

Prime Minister John Key will use his Waitangi Day address this morning to tackle extremists on both sides of the race relations divide.

Plans to hold a topless tobogganing competition next month in the east German ski resort of Oberwiesenthal have caused a furore.

Today's unemployment figure has surprised many, with most - including the Reserve Bank, expecting a figure well under 7 per cent.

Irwin Industrial Tools had been Wellsford's icon and biggest employer, but with the factory abandoned, the town is moving on.

An official survey has found that families with children are far more likely to be in hardship than any other New Zealanders.

A British mum will be questioned after police found the bodies of her two children in her car.

One of the men accused of Dean Browne's murder had a "loose connection" to the woman who lived at the address where his body was found.

Signs of family breakdown emerge in the wake of Iceland's financial crash.

Both are loving mothers, who after years of devoted care to their disabled children felt they had no choice but to take the law into their own hands but while one was allowed to walk free from court yesterday the other will go to jail.

Is feminism to blame for the number of women who find themselves single? The Independent's Liz Hoggard delves into the issue.

When Dean Browne's former girlfriend heard he had been murdered and dumped in a New Plymouth garage, she knew his lifestyle had finally caught up with him.