Today, a 19 year old Taupo man was jailed for throwing a three month old baby, who wouldn't stop crying, onto the floor, causing life-threatening head injuries.

A stabbing victim is leaving the country and fears for his life because his attacker is about to be released from prison without having done any rehabilitation programme.

Eat your five-a-day, take exercise, avoid alcohol, sugar, stress... Obsessing about our well-being is dominating our lives - and it's bad for us.

A man who deliberately crashed into a car killing the female driver has been jailed for at least 14 years.

A 17 year-old has been sentenced to eight months home detention after admitting his part in a friend's suicide.

Party's MPs join chorus of condemnation at the permanent name suppression given to a Manawatu man who downloaded more than 300,000 pornographic images, many of them picturing children.

Chris Barton was at the inquest into a harrowing story of youth suicide.

Getting in touch with nature is part of Rosie Walford's technique for helping people tap into what they're really looking for in life.

A British mum will be questioned after police found the bodies of her two children in her car.

Signs of family breakdown emerge in the wake of Iceland's financial crash.

In the United Kingdom, calls are growing by opposition politicians and the public that the full report of the review of the case of two brothers who savagely attacked a pair of boys in Edlington, South Yorkshire, should be made public.

Diane Elizabeth White died of head injuries after she was allegedly attacked by her neighbour on a suburban Hamilton street.

The handling of a 111 emergency call made to police shortly before a woman was found dead in her home is being referred to the Independent Police Complaints Authority.

A woman twice called a mental health centre for help when one of its patients came to her home, before the patient returned with blood on her face.