New research has found Kiwi university students party more than their Aussie counterparts, but they also manage to fit in more study.

Students at the St Kentigern College after-ball party were treated by paramedics after becoming ill from drinking large quantities of Red Bull.

Places at many popular universities will be restricted next year to students who gain top marks at high school.

Dunedin student pub The Garden Tavern, known as Gardies, will close its doors for the final time this weekend after being sold to Otago University this year.

Members of a UK 'Happy Slapping' gang have admitted killing a retired care worker in front of his young granddaughter.

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

Climbing Everest one minute, circumnavigating the globe the next. It's enough to make any adult feel inadequate.

The parents of US sailor Abby Sunderland have defended the 16-year-old's doomed circumnavigation attempt.

Bay of Plenty girls aged 15 to 19 are suffering from some of the highest rates of chlamydia in the country.

A teenager on home detention chased a police officer with a nailgun in the Otago town of Cromwell early this morning, before crashing during a police pursuit.

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.

A family spokesman says searchers have contacted a 16-year-old Southern California girl who was feared lost at sea and she is alive and well.

Auckland rugby bosses have compiled Ten Commandments for schoolboy rugby matches in a bid to stop unruly parents and others from sideline rants.