The Waitangi Tribunal has released a scathing assessment of the Crown's performance on te reo Maori in the last 25 years, urging action to halt the decline of the language.

Held on the full moon of the twelfth lunar month, Loi Krathong is one of Thailand's most atmospheric traditional festivals.

A shrine to Saint Mary of The Cross MacKillop was unveiled in Auckland yesterday.

The koeksister (pronounced cook-sister) is a syrup-coated doughnut originating from Cape Malay and is usually braided or twisted into a plait.

Jacinta Lal said controversy over the Miss IndiaNZ pageant had distracted from the "inappropriate and offensive" comments made by Paul Henry.

Goff has spent much of the past week playing political football with two of New Zealand's major trading relationships.

A blonde, blue-eyed woman is in a new racism row after winning a Miss IndiaNZ beauty contest, then being accused of not looking Indian enough.

A warning for pregnant or menstruating women to stay away from an exhibit tour is just an advisory and women could decide to ignore it, Arts, Chris Finlayson says.

The French are the experts when it comes to all aspects of culture. Julie Harries explores Auckland's Gallic connections in a quest to gain some quintessential French style and attitude.

Galicia is well-known to the tens of thousands who arrive on foot each year at the end of the pilgrimage known as The Way of St James.

The rain in Spain stays mainly in Galicia, finds Peter Calder.

Michael Laws has come under fire for calling Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand a "large, fat man" who has "never left" the buffet table.

A public relations specialist says Paul Henry would be well aware he had made a huge mistake but was yet to show the right amount of remorse.

What hasn't been said about Paul Henry this week? Everywhere I went everyone was talking about his latest outburst.

After 170 years this is the closest Auckland has come to having a brown mayor.