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President Obama has criticised banks over rising fees and efforts to block financial reform and has warned of the potential impact of the euro zone crisis on the United States.

Calls are being made for the Government to respond to rising rates of serious infectious diseases, with the number of cases of a flesh-eating disease increasing seven-fold in 15 years. Audio

The world's richest people are calling for higher tax bills. Newspapers in France and the US have published editorials by wealthy businessmen saying they cannot stand by and watch while economies…

The biennial conference of the Council of Trade Unions has opened with a call to fight for workers' rights and against wage inequality.

The Prime Minister and Labour Party leader went head-to-head in Parliament on Wednesday over whose government was responsible for the disparity in people's incomes.

The board of the Employers and Manufacturers Association (Northern) has sacked chief executive Alasdair Thompson over his controversial comments about women's productivity. Audio

The Child Poverty Action Group says the Budget does nothing to help low-income families but will simply keep them poor and, in many cases, sick for longer.

French Polynesia's president, Oscar Temaru, has told a public service conference that pays may have to be cut. Mr Temaru says more has to be achieved with fewer means as...

The Human Rights Commission's annual Race Relations Report says social and economic inequalities between ethnic groups remain unacceptably high. Audio

Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia says outspoken MP Hone Harawira did not object when the party supported the National-led Government after the 2008 election. Audio

A call for the retirement age to be raised has been ruled out by Prime Minister John Key, who says he stands by his promise to resign rather than change the superannuation eligibility age. Audio

A Professor of Economics at the University of the South Pacific, Wadan Narsey, says overall, poverty has declined in Fiji but there's been an increase in income inequality. Professor Narsey...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging the international community to work harder to help the world's most vulnerable people and achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

More than 140 world leaders are meeting in New York to review progress on the UN's Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty, disease, hunger and inequality.

There have been continued attacks on Asian-owned businesses in Papua New Guinea's Highlands. The Post Courier newspaper reports that hundreds of youths went on a violent looting spree in Kainantu...

Representatives of indigenous people in New Caledonia and Guam have addressed the United Nations decolonisation committee in New York. Speaking on behalf of New Caledonia's pro-independence Kanak…

The Government says it has no plans to offer subsidies for people with private health insurance despite pressure from a leading insurer.