John Key says it is "ridiculous" that MP Hone Harawira would not be happy about his children dating Pakeha.

It was America's version of a royal wedding: lavish, complicated and at the centre of a huge security operation.

A ground-breaking study has found that mothers can go back to work months after the birth of their child without the baby's well-being suffering.

"Raunch culture" has set back women in Western societies more than 50 years, says a visiting Australian feminist.

Midlfe crises can be a time to discover what really matters. Maybe it's time New Zealand had one.

A couple who split up after winning $1.3 million in Lotto are heading for a courtroom showdown to settle a bitter legal feud.

The lingerie model is reportedly three months pregnant to new husband Orlando Bloom.

As the Clintons' daughter Chelsea prepares to walk down the aisle, Paul Harris finds she is surprisingly unaffected by an adolescence spent in a tumultuous White House.

Scott Kara wonders where the line is when it comes to letting his toddler play with her food.

Insiders estimate Mike Hosking and Kate Hawkesby could have been paid around $50,000 for a magazine deal.

Emn Haddad-Friedman is celebrating her nuptials on the same day as Chelsea Clinton, in the same village. And she's not happy about it.

Actress Christina Applegate is expected her first child with fiance Martyn Lenoble.

It is the emblematic bird of sexual fidelity - and just like sexual fidelity itself, it is rapidly on the wane.

"I cannot disclose," says the caterer. "We're not really speaking," says the restaurant manager. "I can't say anything myself," says the bartender.

Dita De Boni wonders whether parents, as a tribe, have more empathy in general than the childless.

NZ is still only a middling performer when it comes to parental leave provisions, according to a study.

Childless or empty-nest couples have replaced iconic families of Mum, Dad and the kids as New Zealand's most common kind of household.

Disgraced former Australian cricketer Dean Jones in hot water for fathering a lovechild with an air hostess.

Couples without children are expected to overtake two-parent families as the most common household formation by next year, according to Statistics NZ.