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Love triangle Kiwi jailed 6 weeks without charge
The New Zealand man caught in a violent love triangle in Dubai has reportedly spent six weeks in jail without being charged.

Kiwi's love triangle arrest
A NZ man is in a Dubai jail after calling police for help when a jilted lover allegedly attacked him with a knife.

Secret to being a good parent? Take your pick
A great parenting debate is about to be reopened as authors publish books with clashing prescriptions. But will parents be any the wiser?

Initiative for parents a fresh start for families
Youth Court judges are gearing up to make hundreds of orders a year directing young offenders and their parents to attend parenting programmes.

Nicole Kidman reveals secret birth
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have become the proud parents of a baby girl.

Parents learn how to focus on the positive
One of the main lessons Nikki Bodde has learned from the Incredible Years parenting programme is not to use the word "but".

Testosterone surge
I've very worried about the hinges of the door to my children's room. They are about to snap.

Parental lessons may miss most in need
Thousands of New Zealand parents are going back to school to learn how to be better parents - but experts still do not know if the multiple programmes are reaching the parents who most need them.

Are Kiwi males vulgar? A Hollywood star thinks so
Tourism NZ doubts Anna Faris' unsavoury experience will put people off visiting our shores.

Keira Knightley splits from long-term boyfriend
The Atonement actress and actor Rupert Friend decided to call time on their five-year romance just after Christmas and although they are both devastated, the decision to break up was mutual.

Kate Hudson reportedly pregnant with second child
Does she or doesn't she? Have a bun in the oven that is. Word around the water cooler is that Kate Hudson is pregnant.

<i>Dita De Boni:</i> Fed up with the fetishisation of pregnant women
Am I the only one already sick of Victoria Beckham's fourth pregnancy?

Oscar winner Marion Cotillard pregnant
The Inception star and her French actor-and-director partner Guillaume Canet are expecting their first child together.

Mel Gibson fights for his daughter
Mel Gibson wants Oksana Grigorieva immediately stripped of custody of their daughter.

Royal wedding gift dilemma for NZ
Government officials are understood to be compiling a shortlist of gift ideas for the April 29 nuptials.

<i>Deborah Coddington:</i> Gay or straight, it takes devotion to raise a child
What a mean-spirited bunch of commentators we've seen in this country, crawling out from under their rocks to spit upon the news that Sir Elton John became a father on Christmas Day.

Couple wanting a daughter abort twin boys
A couple so desperate for a baby girl that they terminated twin boys are fighting to choose the gender of their next child.

Wedding bill heads for $10m
In the end, it ended like they all do - he does, she does ... and then they were wed.

Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom become parents
Australian Victoria's Secret model Miranda Kerr has reportedly given birth at a Los Angeles-area hospital.

Makeover culture is a boom industry
It's now that shops start to push their various diet supplements, that magazines and newspapers pontificate on the new year's new you.

Big Fat Indian Wedding spices up Auckland
A three-day Indian wedding taking place in Auckland is possibly the biggest, fattest wedding party this city has seen.

Couple united by their scars
They may not be able to exchange wedding rings, but a couple who survived a four-car smash will be united forever by matching scars.

Please don't cry - it upsets a man's sex drive
Smelling a woman's tears can quell a man's sexual desire, a study has found.

Big fat Bollywood wedding in Auckland
An Auckland suburb came to a standstill today as a Bollywood-style Indian wedding procession brought the streets alive with colour and dancing - but no white lions or cheetah cubs.