Grace Kelly has been dead for nearly three decades, but her shadow still falls across Monaco.

The tone on Wall Street and Europe's equity markets remained positive overnight amid optimism the EU is making progress in its efforts to avert a Greek default.

Young New Zealand open-wheel racer Mitch Evans continues to impress in his first foray into Europe.

International fans will get taste of City of Sails and trails.

A shining star of Moorcroft Pottery's design team visits New Zealand this week.

France's Loire Valley was the unlikely last home of an Italian Renaissance genius, writes P.K. Stowers.

It can be a good or a bad thing if you finish a novel wanting more. In the case of Sarah Quigley's The Conductor it's both.

Kiwi model Kylie Bax is expecting her third child after suffering a devastating miscarriage last year.

Floods, hurricanes, droughts - will climate change mean more wild weather ahead? That's a risk the insurance industry is taking very seriously, reports Peter Huck.

New Zealand musicians have secured a special place on the programme for the City of London Festival.

'Epidemic' of cheap synthetic opiate use sees Russian drug addicts slowly rot from the inside.

Comedian Jon Gnarr's irreverent campaign to be mayor of Reykjavik is now making a respectable political difference.

Designer Cedric Charlier, is steadily reinvigorating the famous French label Cacharel which is now available here.

World markets fell overnight, pulled down by poor economic news and the surprise announcement that the International Energy Agency would release oil from strategic reserves.

Jennifer Aniston and her new man, Justin Theroux, snapped packing on PDA by famed photographer Terry Richardson.

The proliferation of cheap clothing has led us to shop excessively. We should be buying more carefully, argues an environmental journalist.