New Zealand's wine-drinking habits are not far off international trends.

Zero-waste design is a means of creating clothes that minimises fabric disposal. At the forefront of this move is Holly McQuillan. Viva finds out more.

Nine detainees on the roof of Villawood detention centre in Sydney's west have continued their protest overnight.

The All Blacks selectors will seriously consider ditching a backup hooker and halfback from their year-end tour squad to make room for more rugby World Cup fringe contenders.

The knives found near the body of a stabbed woman in a suitcase have been handed around a jury in a transparent case.

World share prices surged overnight, bolstered by solid data from US, China and a good European growth forecast.

An Auckland woman died after being stabbed in the heart twice before having her body stuffed inside a suitcase, a court heard today.

World celebrates 21 years in the fashion business and its ongoing plans to keep breaking barriers.

A local biotech firm is set to use its patented microbe technology in China.

I was sitting in a restaurant in Urumqi, in northern China, enjoying the spicy food smells from the kitchen, when a plaintiff Australian voice quavered across the room, "I want steak, eggs and chips."

One-time factory worker Zhang Xin rode China's property boom.

Maurice Williamson's comments that opponents of land sales to foreigners were sometimes being racist was a case of humour backfiring, John Key said today.

The temple of a famous Buddhist reconciles tensions between communism and religion, writes Jim Eagles.