Red balloons have released at Parliament this lunchtime, as the New Zealand Labour Party held a commemorative ceremony for those who lost their lives in Norway's bombing and mass shooting.

Balancing tax and spending is not a task we can afford to cede to appointed experts...

An autopsy on the body of singer Amy Winehouse has revealed no cause of death, according to police officials.

The All Blacks have the advantage of player depth over old foe Australia for the World Cup, says former skipper Sean Fitzpatrick.

Chris de Freitas and Keith Hunter says the global temperature has not risen over the past 13 years.

Survivors of Norway's massacre tell horrific stories of their camp mates being picked off one by one as they ran from hiding places as he drew near. The Herald on Sunday spoke to one survivor, who..

Only one man has won the Le Mans 24-hour race eight times: Tom Kristensen. When he came here to launch the new Audi, he wound up talking to Driven.

An artificial joint touted as the best on the market has turned into an international medical disaster. The Weekend Herald investigates why no one here saw it coming.

Three good, non-sinister reasons why young foreign tourists would want to hasten their departure

I visited the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain one Saturday in June.

Brooke Fraser hochster Neu-Einstieg in die Charts. That's right, the lovely Kiwi songstress "is the highest new entry in the German charts" and her third album, Flags, has sent the European world a-Twitter.

The mother of the French woman who has accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape has told police she also had a "violent" sexual encounter with him.

Cheryl Cole's ex-husband Ashley Cole begged a lingerie model to send him a nude photo just days before the couple reunited.

Iceland, settled by Vikings and their slaves more than a thousand years ago, is a surprisingly chic, switched-on place, writes Denis Peters.

Australia will help fund a World War I museum in Belgium that houses artefacts from a battlefield where more than 11,000 diggers died.

Ashdown Forest is one of Britain's many literary haunts, writes Robert McCrum.