NZ is one of the best places to shuffle off the mortal coil, according to a new index.

Columnist Garth George sounds off on the Andy Haden issue.

Swiss citizen Johann Hari wonders how Polanski, who boasted about his crime from exile, was allowed to get away with it.

Fear of foreigners is the new fashion in our island hideaway.

Rugby World Cup Minister Murray McCully has accepted Andy Haden's resignation from his role as ambassador.

Andy Haden's role as Rugby World Cup Ambassador "is over" following his latest outburst.

A New Zealand judge has ruled that advertisements for Pokerstars.net and the Asia Pacific Poker Tour run on TV3 and C4 were not promoting online gambling.

One of Andy Haden's celebrity clients has backed his rape comments, while Rugby World Cup Minister Murray McCully has hinted Haden's role as ambassador could be over.

More than half of Kiwis are okay with mothers breastfeeding in public, but a minority still prefer babies be fed in the restroom.

Five years after the terror attacks on London's public transport system, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reflects on what's been learned.

In a bid to combat rampant obesity levels, law-makers in the US city of Baldwin Park have imposed a moratorium on new fast-food outlets.

There's no simple job description for fatherhood, but Mangere first-time dad Daniel Brown knows the kind of dad he doesn't want to be.

Drunk youths are turning up at Auckland emergency rooms at the rate of almost one a day, says the ADHB.

The Government is moving to increase maximum sentences for knife-related offences while beefing up education and placing restrictions on the sale of knives.