The Spanish Foreign Minister yesterday told his country's parliament that Cuba would soon release "all" political prisoners.

Gorillaz will play a New Zealand show off the back of an Australian tour later this year.

Injured Ali Williams could look to Europe for a short-term contract in a bid to get match-hardened before the World Cup.

Haute couture may be struggling in these tough economic times, but there is still a place for it on the catwalks of Paris.

A Kiwi designer has taken out a top spot at the World Bodypainting Championships in Austria.

A Russian betting firm wants to buy psychic World Cup octopus Paul as a bookmaker and pay him a salary of $NZ7000 a month, according to local media.

Fifteen lucky poker players are headed from Auckland to Queenstown this week for a chance to strike it rich.

Stocks in the US advanced as better-than-anticipated earnings outweighed a decline in homebuilder confidence.

Divers have found what is thought to be the world's oldest drinkable champagne in a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea.

Forget the Large Hadron Collider, Cern's scientists have their hearts set on a new, $9.48 billion, 31km Linear Collider.

Solid earnings data from corporate America has done little to ease investors' concerns that growth in the world economy is slowing.

To anyone who pictures Warsaw as a cold, grey, conservative city, yesterday offered an antidote.

Stocks in Europe and the US fell after worse-than-expected US economic data bolstered concern about growth.

Limo rental companies and dressmakers are starting to cash in as 'proms' to celebrate the end of primary school take off across Britain.

A prolonged heatwave across Russia combined with a prodigious consumption of vodka has led to dozens of drownings every day.

NZ is one of the best places to shuffle off the mortal coil, according to a new index.