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Cossie club votes to keep ban on turbans

Bloody Sunday soldiers face private prosecution

South Africa: Going home

Jane Phare talks to a South African living in New Zealand who is returning to Cape Town armed with lessons learned from Kiwis.

Soccer: The good, the bad and the football

Confront Iran on brutality, not nukes

Bloody shadow cast over bright future

Prosecutors seek jail for Bethune

Japanese prosecutors are demanding two years jail for NZ anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune, on trial for assault and charges after the boarding of a harpoon ship in Antarctic waters.

Malawi gay couple split

Anger over 'lenient' Bhopal verdicts

Activists are angry an Indian court handed down jail terms of just two years to former Bhopal pesticide plant officials.

Slave labour exposed

Shock over Maka 'slave' claim

Maka says slave claim a shame and untrue

The rugby star accused of modern day slavery in France says the claims made against him are fabricated.

Former NZ rugby player accused of 'modern slavery'

Finau Maka has been accused of treating a young Tunisian man living with his family with 'utter indignity'.

Rudd Govt plans to hold asylum-seekers in desert

iPad mania overshadowed by human cost concerns

Apple has been embarrassed by publicity surrounding 11 suicide attempts at the vast Foxconn facility which produces iPad and other products.

Medic shot dead in Red Shirt protesters' refuge

Kamolket Akahad was treating an injured man, dressed as a medic, when she was shot and killed.

OK to call lollies Eskimos

Magazine slammed for ordering breastfeeding mums to toilet

Breastfeeding advocates are outraged at a magazine's "commandment".