Unprecedented numbers of small babies are in the care of unqualified home-based carers.

Babies are best at home with their parents, says one of the few blokes in the country who provides home-based childcare.

Scott Kara reflects on a year of his young daughter's ups and downs.

Zara Phillips has announced her engagement to rugby player Mike Tindall.

The Wedding Crashers actor's wife Kyla Weber gave birth to a baby girl in Chicago on Saturday and the couple have decided to name the 7lbs tot Locklyn Kyla Vaughn.

The Still The One singer and Frederic Thiebaud are set to marry after the Swiss-born Nestle business executive popped the question two months ago in his native country.

It is with huge regret and disgust that once more, New Zealanders wake up to find 'caregivers' accused on brutally assaulting their children.

Australian website hotelscombined.com has named Lake Okareka Lodge as one of the world's top honeymoon getaways.

David Arquette is drinking heavily to cope with his split from Courteney Cox.

A teacher 'counselled' a student who was in a relationship with a relative by having sex with her at lunchtime.

Elizabeth Hurley is to get a quickie divorce from her husband Arun Nayar.

Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson have separated, ending their two-year marriage, the couple announced in a joint statement today.

The man dedicated to revealing Government secrets has had some of his own secrets made public. An online dating account reportedly belonging to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been unearthed,

So says the excited UK press, with fresh tabloid reports stating the unlikely pair's relationship is more than a fling.

Although this year's harvest is bountiful and prices are buoyant, a long-term threat hangs over the future of the UK's mistletoe.

You may know him as the man mentioned once in 250,000 diplomatic cables sent between NZ and the US, but I know him as "daddy".

The other day I felt like I was a dirty and sinister old man - even though I'm not and the incident was entirely innocent.

Before you whip out that credit card, ask yourself if the gift you're about to buy for someone is expressing your true feelings - or will it just insult them?

Where would the world of childbirth be without those uninhibited European women who feature so prominently in birthing videos?

Mohamed Taranissi, the so-called 'bad boy of the fertility world' is still Britain's most successful IVF specialist.

With the 2010 Bad Sex Awards announced last week by the Literary Review, Arifa Akbar looks at the criteria for consideration and the judging process.

It's a girl. Oh well, there goes my grand plan of moulding another Benji Marshall or Dan Carter.

Stay-at-home mums are an endangered species these days. I was one once and even then it was hard work explaining why.

It's not often I let my husband fly solo, but when it came to the garage sale, it was the only way to go.

An Otago University study has challenged the idea that depression and anti-social behaviour are primarily influenced by genes.

Anjali Stewart and Rachel Easting are childhood friends and the designers behind Twenty-seven Names.

The real life story that inspired the film, The King's Speech, is one of the most extraordinary involving the British royal family in recent years.

The little-known tale of an Australian 'quack' who helped save the British throne from embarrassment is soon to be released.