A 17-year-old Pakuranga man will appear in court tomorrow to face charges in connection with the death of an 18-year-old.

A distraught teenager who tried in vain to save the life of his stabbed friend has told how police had to drag him away from the body. Dillon Meagher did a CPR course last month but hadn't learnt about treating multiple stab wounds.

Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell has been quick to apologise for the offence caused by a column in his local newspaper.

Taking the kids out for dinner doesn't have to be a traumatic - or dull - experience marked by bad food and service, discovers Virgil Evetts.

Sixty per cent of Italians aged 18 to 34 still live with their parents, the highest percentage of young stay-at-homes anywhere in Europe.

Actress Jessica Alba punishes her three-year-old daughter by putting her on "time-out" in a dark bathroom.

Sharing food across the wider whanau is the only way Papakura's Peawini family keeps food on the table.

The causes of increased poverty, and the growth of school food programmes go back to National's big benefit cuts of 1991.

More than 100 Herald readers have signed up to pay $15 a month to sponsor hungry children in response to this week's campaign on the issue.

Poorer families are cutting out meat and vegetables to keep up repayments to finance companies, budgeters say.