New Zealand has rates of sexual violence against teenagers above the global average, ahead of even a badly afflicted ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday (local time) in the Sistine Chapel where he was elected less than 24 hours earlier, warning of the dangers caused by a lack of faith and hoping the ...

The Australian Boomers and Opals have proved too classy for their Kiwi opponents in the second of three fixtures each in the ...

The world could be witnessing "another Nakba" expulsion of Palestinians, a United Nations committee warned on Friday, ...

Pharmac is seeking public feedback on a proposal to simplify the criteria for people to receive Covid-19 antiviral medicines.

It was an emphatic and often-meted commercial. Queen of the daytime talk show, Oprah Winfrey can't hide her excitement. "I ...

It is New Zealand Archeology Week this week and Tuhura - Otago Museum has a Treasure of Tiwai event on. People can go along and see artefacts recovered by the McFarlane family at Tiwai in the 1960s - ...

National introduced a members' bill to ban social media for people under the age of 16, It wants to put the onus on social media companies to verify that someone is old enough to use their platforms.

A couple of weeks ago, we covered a story about the ethics of sperm donors fathering up to 80 children each. That happened in the Netherlands where several clinics breached guidelines. A fertility ...

Hundreds of people from Dunedin to Auckland took to the streets this week to protest the government's new Pay Equity Amendment Bill. It was pushed through parliament this week under urgency. There ...

We've seen the worst outbreak of violence in Pakistan and India in 30 years this week. Both countries are accusing the other of carrying out drone attacks and Reuters is reporting that 48 people have ...