Fifteen lucky poker players are headed from Auckland to Queenstown this week for a chance to strike it rich.

He insists on his own story being told as truth, but author Guy Gavriel Kay's own writing is more effective for its addition of fantasy, writes David Larsen.

Polar bears in the Hudson Bay area of Canada are likely to die out in the next three decades.

A Canadian known to visit New Zealand is wanted for his involvement in the murder of 13 rival bikie gang members.

A mudslide has destroyed about a dozen buildings in the fruit-growing region of southern British Columbia.

Scientists have discovered the first significant link between autism and DNA.

The man who faked his CV to become the first boss of Maori TV says his sentence was harsh compared with what has since happened to a public servant who falsified her CV.

Parents, beware: watching television makes toddlers fatter and stupider at primary school, according to new research.

John Key found himself on the fringes of a political scandal in Ottawa yesterday, involving allegations of cocaine use and blackmail.

The govt-appointed Welfare Working Group will consider unemployment insurance among options for reforming the social security system.