The fight to prevent a house designed by Arthur Conan Doyle from being converted into flats is to be taken to the UK's High Court.

Great Britain is expected to be blanketed with up to eight inches of snow this weekend, as another icy front grips the country.

Australia were made to look like first-time visitors to the WACA as English hands closed ever more firmly around the Ashes.

He is from another era of current affairs television and tonight (Friday afternoon NZ time) that era will end.

Luton has long been saddled by the suggestion that it is a town riddled with terrorists.

Scotland Yard will consider asking the British Home Secretary to ban further student marches.

The mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has condemned Swedish prosecutors' decision to lodge an appeal blocking her son's freedom.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will reportedly appear in a London court tonight (NZT), in a second attempt to win bail. He's also issued a statement, through his mother, saying he's determined to fight for the future of WikiLeaks.

The founder of WikiLeaks has issued a plea from jail for his supporters to keep fighting, accusing Visa, Mastercard and Paypal of being instruments of US foreign policy.

So says the excited UK press, with fresh tabloid reports stating the unlikely pair's relationship is more than a fling.

Nicholas Evans' new novel, The Brave, deals with the hard edges of life. This is a story of people and relationships interlaced with a complicated and ambitious plot.

Britain is considering banning far-right United States pastor Terry Jones from travelling to the UK.

Although this year's harvest is bountiful and prices are buoyant, a long-term threat hangs over the future of the UK's mistletoe.

Shane Warne is reported to be having an affair with British model Liz Hurley, who says she's separated from her husband.

Canterbury shooter Anna Thompson has been recalled to the Silver Ferns for next month's tour of England.

With three tests remaining in the Ashes series what can both sides do to get their hands on the precious urn?

Mohamed Taranissi, the so-called 'bad boy of the fertility world' is still Britain's most successful IVF specialist.

With the Australian cricket team hitting a new low, is spin king Shane Warne about to come out of retirement and return to test cricket?

A speeding driver has been ticketed by the same policeman on both sides of the world.