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Journalist Paula Penfold tells The Detail why she decided to get personal when it came to abortion law reform.

A group of luxury hotels owned by Brunei's royal family are putting their social media pages on lockdown after a celebrity backlash against the kingdom's introduction of Sharia Law including a death…

From police stab vests, to safety goggles, to smartphones, to boots: the list of things not designed with women in mind is very long indeed. Here's just seven examples.

The trial of a prominent New Zealander has been aborted.

A visiting British woman considered illegally importing drugs bought online to avoid paying more than $2000 to legally access two abortion pills after a contraception failure.

The US's new commercial astronaut capsule has completed its demonstration flight with a successful splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean.

New SpaceX capsule docks with International Space Station - the first US made shuttle to do so in nearly a decade.

In the five months it took Becky to reach Italy from Nigeria, she was jailed, raped at gunpoint, forced into an abortion, nearly drowned at sea and saw several fellow travellers die.

News that doctors performed a caesarean section on an 11-year-old rape victim has reignited a debate on Argentina's abortion rules.

Pope Francis has promised concrete action to tackle child sex abuse at the end of a Roman Catholic Church summit on paedophilia.

Pope Francis is under pressure to generate workable solutions to the crisis of child sexual abuse by priests.

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Kiwibank has had a strong rise in its half year profit on the back of solid growth in lending and deposits, while it's also lowered the cost of doing business.

A New Zealand seafood exporter has struck problems in getting its produce into China, in what could be a sign of increasing tension.

Rohit Singh was so besotted with Arishma Chand he had her face tattooed on his chest. Today he was sentenced to at least 19 years for her murder. Anneke Smith charts a tale of obsession, farcical lies…

Amendments to the Migration Act have passed Australia's House of Representatives which could make it easier for sick refugees detained on Manus Island and Nauru to be transferred to Australia.

Pope Francis has admitted that clerics have sexually abused nuns, and in one case they were kept as sex slaves.

A teenager involved in a controversial encounter between a Native American man and a crowd of students has spoken out.

Kamala Harris, who previously served as an attorney-general, says she is "very excited" about running for presidency in the United States.

A Native American who was seen in online video being taunted outside the Lincoln Memorial said he felt compelled to get between two groups with his ceremonial drum to defuse a confrontation.