How sex and cancer risk are linked is complicated and dependent on several factors. Your age, gender, and how often you practice safe sex will all influence.

Actress Mia Wasikowska has broken her silence about working with eccentric actor Shia LaBeouf, revealing she struggled to connect with the method actor.

You may have never heard of them, but it won't be long before their efforts are making an impression on you, too.

Internet trolls on the site which hosted naked celebrity photos have made what appears to be a threat to film star Emma Watson just hours after she addressed the United Nations on gender equality.

Plans are being formulated at TVNZ on what to do about "the Toni factor" when popular presenter Toni Street goes on maternity leave early next year.

Traffic will gain clearer runs to and from Auckland Airport from a $140 million accelerated project to turn George Bolt Memorial Drive into a full motorway.

A scorpion has been destroyed after being found inside the tent of a traveller coming back into Auckland from Mexico at Auckland Airport.

After negotiations with the FMA, both Kiwibank and ASB are finally set to kill their respective zombie KiwiSaver schemes.

Fashion is about self-expression, individuality, it is a way of communicating with the world around you.

The vote on changing the New Zealand flag could happen next year, Prime Minister John Key says.

A healthy democracy needs two parties capable of providing good government. New Zealand is well served by National and Labour.

Anchorman 2 actress Meagan Good has blasted the people re-posting her nude pictures, saying they "should be ashamed".

When Whangarei Pak'nSave checkout operator Rebecca Mclean, 18, helped an elderly customer pay for her groceries last week she did not intend to tell anyone.

Controversial senator equates sharia law with acts of terrorism in a much-criticised television interview.

Taylor Swift has spoken about her friendship with Lorde, calling her a "very special girl".

Inspired by the last requests of death row inmates and allowing diners to "enjoy the idea of a last meal, without the nasty execution bit," Death Row Dinners has caused a stir.

Up on last time, but one of the worst voter turnouts this century.

For the changes in the Labour's rules which David Cunliffe was party to and which he promoted in order to undermine Shearer could end up destroying his own leadership.

Jacqui Lambie, the straight-talking, combative Tasmanian, is shaking up federal politics and injecting a breath of the real world into Canberra.

Conservative Party leader Colin Craig says he is in politics for life and will not be deterred by another failed election bid, which came at significant personal expense.

TV blogger Paul Casserly picks the best and worst moments of last night's television coverage of the 2014 election.

Labour leader David Cunliffe has lashed out at Kim Dotcom as "reprehensible" after last night's loss.

What the public wanted to hear from him was a large measure of mea culpa. What it got was Cunliffe blaming everyone but himself.

In a frosty and combative interview this morning, David Cunliffe admitted the party's worst result since 1922 was 'not great' but 'not all bad either'.

Photos showing an apparently nude Kim Kardashian are among a group of images that have appeared online in what appears to be a second leak.

Tax cuts are coming for most New Zealanders ... but you're going to have to wait for three years.

A girl whose thumb was left dangling from her hand after a freak washing machine accident has a crack surgical team - and leeches - to thank for saving the digit.

After months of trying to set the agenda for the election, Kim Dotcom last night saw the aspirations of his political party crash and burn.