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.

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.

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

With his girlfriend's dead body still in the morgue as police investigated her death, Elliot Turner partied with friends and was even kicked out of a club for pulling down his pants and showing his genitals.

Suzanne McFadden talks to six new Kiwi kids about fitting in.

Arrest of teenager came after bodies were left hanging from a bridge.