When Yannick Denis won tickets to see his favourite band play in Waihi tonight, there was one minor hitch.

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.

A New Zealand makeup artist has risen to the top of her field, painting the skins of the world's most famous people, but this year she is homesick.

Scientists from 38 organisations in ten countries collaborated to publish the complete DNA sequence of the woodland strawberry.

Kiwi mum Jacqui Thomas has taken a year out to backpack round the world - with her 7-year-old daughter.

Gold investors have high hopes about price rises continuing in 2011.

Staff at the NZ Embassy in Rome have been told to be on the look out for suspicious packages after mail bombs exploded in the hands of employees at the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome on Thursday.

Former All Blacks star Doug Howlett was arrested by Irish police on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly at his Christmas party night out with his Munster teammates.