John Key says it is "ridiculous" that MP Hone Harawira would not be happy about his children dating Pakeha.

To anyone who pictures Warsaw as a cold, grey, conservative city, yesterday offered an antidote.

One of the country's most famous rugby clubs is under fire for hiring topless models to raffle underwear at its annual fundraiser earlier this week.

Mel Gibson faces potential jail time if Los Angeles sheriffs find evidence supporting his former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva's claims the Australian-raised Oscar winner assaulted her.

Teams of police patrolled streets in the western region of Xinjiang last night as stringent security was imposed for the one-year anniversary of China's worst ethnic violence in decades.

David Fane will have the next couple of weeks to mull over his comments about HIV sufferers and Jews, after being suspended from his radio host job.

David Fane has been suspended from his Radio Network job for a week for offensive comments made during an expletive-laden rant last week.

bro'Town co-creator and radio star David Fane has apologised for racist and anti-gay remarks he made in a speech but his future may rest on a meeting with his bosses.

One of the creators of bro'Town has apologised for the "dumb" racist and homophobic remarks he made at a media event earlier this week.

A top TV star unleashed a racist outburst at a high-profile media event this week - claiming that "Jews were expendable". He also claimed that "Hitler had a right" and HIV sufferers deserved to be "roasted".

Racism and xenophobic violence is flourishing in towns and villages across Britain - while inner city areas that were once hotbeds of racial violence are now more "at ease" with diversity.