Poorer families are cutting out meat and vegetables to keep up repayments to finance companies, budgeters say.

Amy Winehouse reportedly died in her Camden home after wild drinking sessions and an Ecstasy binge.

School principals say the number of pupils turning up for breakfast is increasing daily, despite the collapse of one of the two main breakfast programmes...

A "red flag" identifying at-risk children for schools, doctors and police is expected to be floated by the Government.

Domestic violence, from psychological abuse to beatings, is our biggest problem.

The architect of tough benefit reforms in Britain will face a picket by Sue Bradford's Auckland Action Against Poverty.

The Independent's Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on the shocking realities of human trafficking.

Young women across Russia have been called on to show their support for Vladimir Putin by ripping off their clothes.

Mihingarangi Forbes' television interview with Alasdair Thompson raised an interesting issue.

A call to ban energy drink cans featuring overt sexual messages has been made by the National Council of Women.

People in the quiet seaside town of Opunake always wondered how a "lovely, kind and beautiful...

The man shot dead by police yesterday had just got out of jail for trying to cut the throat of the woman he held hostage.

A notorious NZ criminal has been awarded compensation for breach of privacy and hurt feelings.

There's a perennial debate as to whether certain sex differences in children are innate or learned.