The Australian dollar has finally hit parity with the US dollar.

One of England's biggest police forces is tweeting every incident it deals with over a 24-hour period to give the public an idea of the workload officers face.

Mary MacKillop (1842-1909) is set to become Australia's first saint.

No area of medicine has advanced more rapidly, nor created more controversy, than the treatment of infertility.

The first German exhibition since the Second World War to deal exclusively with Hitler and Nazism opens in Berlin.

How chick-flick Eat, Pray, Love sold out to the forces of materialism. By Guy Adams.

L'Oreal is considering a bid of US$44 ($58.16) a share for Avon, the UK's Daily Mail reported.

Can the gold price keep climbing?

New Zealand finished fourth among five nations tonight in the rhythmic gymnastics teams competition at the Commonwealth Games.

The elegant waltzes of Johann Strauss are synonymous with Vienna, and glamorous public balls are a Viennese tradition.

Hal Herzog, one of America's foremost psychologists, is dedicated to understanding our often contradictory behaviour towards different species.

Sometimes the simplest of garments brings out a display of virtuosity in designers more effectively than anything more obviously sensational.

Far-right extremists hurled molotov cocktails at marchers in a Gay Pride parade in Europe.

What happens if two countries cannot agree on the appropriate value for their mutual exchange rate? All sorts of accusations start to fly around.

Competition schedule for New Zealand athletes on the seventh day of the Delhi Commonwealth Games on Monday, October 11:

Galicia is well-known to the tens of thousands who arrive on foot each year at the end of the pilgrimage known as The Way of St James (in Spanish: El Camino de Santiago).

Galicia is well-known to the tens of thousands who arrive on foot each year at the end of the pilgrimage known as The Way of St James.

The rain in Spain stays mainly in Galicia, finds Peter Calder.