Stocks on Wall Street were up as investors' confidence was underpinned by better-than-expected US earnings and international support for Europe's debt.

Liz Light walks in the Grazalema Mountains in southern Spain.

The Inception star and her French actor-and-director partner Guillaume Canet are expecting their first child together.

The Pope has declared war on parents' growing insistence on shunning the saints and naming their children after fashion designers, Sanskrit titles and things that don't mean much.

Estonia's introduction of the euro has caused controversy after it was claimed a map of the Baltic country on its one euro coin includes a chunk of neighbouring Russia.

Paul Rush finds passion in the air in Italy's style city.

Interpol is hunting a former Auckland man suspected of masterminding a $2m European property scam...

Roads and vehicles must be "more forgiving" to curb a road toll which averages more than one death a day, the AA says. Figures released by the Ministry of Transport today show 371 people died on the roads over the past year.

Auckland couple Jo Denvir and Daniel Nixon have been waiting three years for the adoption doors to Russia to reopen.

Trade Me customers are the victims of the latest online scam by fraudsters operating out of Russia.

A Swedish neo-Nazi has been jailed for the theft of the infamous 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign from the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.

The New Zealand dollar is trading at its highest level against the pound in three decades.