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.

Former expat Georgina Robertson has brought the fashion influences of France and England home with her to New Zealand.

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

Viva meets Rene Redzepi, the passionate purist behind the world's best restaurant.

The embalmed head of one of the most infamous kings of France has been identified by scientists 400 years after his assassination.

The Netherlands' free-wheeling dope days may soon be over if the country's new centre-right coalition government has its way.

Researchers claim to have found the first proof that getting a regular eight hours' sleep a night can make you appear more attractive.

Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure.

With her infectious cackle and outrageous dress sense, Anna Dello Russo - influential blogger, editor-at-large, street-style icon - is putting the fun back into dressing up, and gathering a huge following in the process.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was scheduled to appear in a London court on Tuesday seeking to fight his extradition to Sweden.

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.

Graham Robb has that rare gift of storytelling that compels riveted attention from readers of non-fiction as much as fiction and he understands that stories may spring emotionally from places but inevitably embrace the lives of people.

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

The Stockholm suicide bombing has shattered the open-minded Scandinavian country of Sweden.

New technology is lighting up cities and saving energy.

Located at the north-west corner of mainland Wales, Anglesey is commonly treated as a thoroughfare by people heading to the busy port of Holyhead.

Ireland's 'gourmet grande dame', Darina Allen, fills in the cooking gaps that may have passed us by.

Advice on exploring Vanuatu and attending cooking school in Tuscany or Umbria.

The 2010 Nobel laureates in literature, economics, physics and chemistry received their prizes in Stockholm last night.