An elixir of youth remains a distant dream but medicines to help us live longer and better are moving closer.

Three women who are old enough to claim their pensions have appeared in a list of the 10 most beautiful women in the world.

Courteney Cox's new role is her most daring and controversial yet. She tells Rebecca Barry why she's basically playing herself.

Hair and skincare needs change with time, writes Janetta Mackay.

The Maori Party has scoffed at suggestions by ex-MP Winston Peters that Govt initiatives concerning welfare and the foreshore would lead to disaster.

A 93-year-old woman who police apprehended for disorderly behaviour was New Zealand's oldest offender last year.

The Transport Minister admits his choice of words may have contributed to the outcry over potential cuts to SuperGold Card transport concessions.

David Newport, principal of business sales & acquisitions firm Switch Business asks if those baby-boomers really do want to get out entirely?

Scientists have found that people who inherit two copies of a particular DNA variant show the biological signs of being about eight years "older" than people of the same age who carry neither genetic variant.

Rest-home nurses who rushed to an 82-year-old patient's scream found her on the floor with another patient's walking frame on top of her.