Award-winning Auckland chef Geoff Scott finds inspiration (and weird things) on holiday in Tokyo.

A kung fu "Grand Master" who left New Zealand after a scandal in which one of his students died was detained by police on serious weapons charges in Thailand.

Telecommunications reporter Helen Twose talks to 80s hair bands, gets tweeted at by a shrub, sees Audi's Wi-Fi-toting A8 and meets a guy paid to roll his eyes at the Mobile World Congress.

The aroma of your steak frying may set your tastebuds tingling - but it may also give the chef cancer, especially if they are using a gas cooker.

New Zealand's favourite car - the Toyota Corolla - should not be affected by the steering problems reported in the United States, says a Toyota spokesperson.

Kiwi sportspeople scheduled to compete in India could be endangered after a chilling warning from al Qaeda.

Ian D. Robinson treks through the wilderness at the edge of one of the world's danger zones.

It took four years of complex legal wrangling, nearly bankrupted an ailing Hindu guru and has cost the British taxpayer tens of thousands of pounds.

The inspiring Shaolin Temple is a study of opposites, writes Yvonne Tahana.