The "Kuta cowboys" who offer friendship to tourists face an uncertain future, thanks to an uproar provoked by a warts-and-all documentary.

A teenager needed two rows of stitches and a steel plate to repair his shattered jaw after being beaten over the colour of his T-shirt.

Shakespearean tragedy has become high farce, after a Christian high school sacked a teacher for using a "morally defiling" King Lear text.

The first European ban on the wearing of the Islamic burqa in public is poised to come into force in Belgium.

People who were abused in Salvation Army homes as long as 70 years ago say they're still waiting for a public apology.

The French government will enact a law next month to ban the burqa, or full-body veil.

North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams is facing fresh criticism over an Easter email to councillors, which began: "Two blokes got crucified this week..."

Brian Tamaki is personally counselling the pastors linked to a scandal involving inappropriate conduct with foster children.

A book about Samoan tattooing - tatau - records a story that has been 30 years in the making.

Paul Thomas writes that there's a widespread assumption of American ignorance, particularly in the heartland.

A man haunted by childhood memories of sexual abuse at a Catholic orphanage just wants someone to acknowledge there was wrongdoing.

Peter Lyons, a teacher at St Peter's College, writes that abuse scandals are a legacy of centuries of intolerance of critical self-analysis.