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Naked ambition for 'Top Model'
NZNTM winner Danielle Hayes has appeared in a topless photo shoot, prompting both compliments and condemnation.

Editorial: Suicide stand requires no apology
Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell has been quick to apologise for the offence caused by a column in his local newspaper.

How to dine out and keep everybody happy
Taking the kids out for dinner doesn't have to be a traumatic - or dull - experience marked by bad food and service, discovers Virgil Evetts.

Catherine Field: For Italy's young there's no place like home
Sixty per cent of Italians aged 18 to 34 still live with their parents, the highest percentage of young stay-at-homes anywhere in Europe.

Jessica Alba gives child time outs in the dark
Actress Jessica Alba punishes her three-year-old daughter by putting her on "time-out" in a dark bathroom.

Our hungry kids: Whanau helps put kai on table
Sharing food across the wider whanau is the only way Papakura's Peawini family keeps food on the table.

Brian Rudman: Hunger in land of milk and honey
The causes of increased poverty, and the growth of school food programmes go back to National's big benefit cuts of 1991.

Our hungry kids: 130 sponsors sign up to feed children
More than 100 Herald readers have signed up to pay $15 a month to sponsor hungry children in response to this week's campaign on the issue.