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Medical staff have described their efforts to save a dying girl at the centre of a Christchurch murder trial. Audio

The wife of a man charged with murdering his niece has told a court he was never violent and did not show an inappropriate interest in children.

A British court has ruled a baby must be adopted because she is at risk of becoming the victim of an "honour killing". Her natural mother does not want her family to find out about the birth.

The head of the province of Cakaudrove in Fiji wants the 134 villages under his jurisdiction to adopt a zero tolerance approach to violence against women and children. Ro Aca...

Voters will go to the polls on Saturday with a clear choice between the two major parties and their likely allies.

This column should be about the 120-point economic action plan the National Party released earlier in the week and the rash of other policy announcements by it, Labour and the other parties contesting…

National Party leader John Key is proving once again how he carefully tries to remain in step with public opinion - even when pushing unpopular policies.

About 300 protesters marched on Parliament on Thursday in a bid to convince the New Zealand Government to legalise same-sex marriage and allow gay couples to adopt children. Audio

A defence lawyer says legislation to improve the treatment of child witnesses in court must also ensure the rights of an accused are protected.

Justice Minister Simon Power has announced a package of reforms that he says will change the way children are treated in the criminal justice system.

An Australian Institute of Criminology researcher is encouraging Pacific communities and families to build on cultural strengths to reduce the vulnerability of children to trafficking. The Institute's…

A new study says that children in the Pacific region are vulnerable to sex tourism, cheap labour and illegal adoption but there's limited evidence of the extent of the problem.

Sir Elton John is a parent. The British singer/songwriter and his partner David Furnish say a son was born to a surrogate mother in California on Christmas Day. Audio

A law has been passed in Indonesia that stipulates all babies should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of their life.

The European Commission has told France that it faces action over its expulsion of Roma (Gypsy) migrants if it fails to adopt EU rules on freedom of movement by 15 October. Audio

More than 2300 Canterbury homes feared uninhabitable; earthquake triggers record rise in heart attacks; fiery super city meeting.

A disciplinary hearing has begun in Christchurch for a midwife charged with failing to act in the best interests of five of her patients between 2005 and 2008.

Child sex charges have been reinstated against the former Solomon Islands Attorney-General, Julian Moti, following a ruling by Queensland's Court of Appeal. In a written judgment handed down on…

The right of a de facto couple to adopt a child has been upheld by the High Court in a judgement delivered on Thursday.

A woman has been found guilty of the murder of a three-year-old boy placed in her care. Audio

Russia is considering suspending the adoption of Russian children by people in the United States, after a seven-year-old boy was sent back because his adoptive family rejected him.