Despite warnings of bandits, corrupt police and endless forests, the 51st Traverse team make good progress through Russia.

Images of the writer and aviation pioneer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - probably taken just before his death - have surfaced in France.

Captain fantastic Ryan Nelsen says the All Whites have proved the doubters wrong, and the side has everything to play for.

The Royal Dutch Medical Association has adopted the view that the circumcision of underage boys violates their human rights.

Beautiful, historic Slovenia is coming into its own, writes Andrea Jutson.

New Zealand sailor Michael Bullot has finished fifth at the European Laser Championship off the coast of Estonia.

The death of Nelson Mandela's great granddaughter "robbed South Africa of what was intended as a day of pure joy".

Scientists found the least anxious study participants healed twice as fast as those who were most stressed.

The Independent's Nick Duerden wonders why the UK has such different views on children in restaurants to the rest of Europe.

Scientists have discovered the first significant link between autism and DNA.

For borrowers the Reserve Bank's statement makes dispiriting reading...

After the excesses of his epic World War I tale A Very Long Engagement, Jeunet seems to have to returned to the imaginative worlds of his earlier works.

Short people suffer a greater rate of illness and death from heart disease, research has shown.

The New Zealand public has chosen the winner of the Doodle 4 Google 'I love football' competition.

As the world's most famous luggage brand opens a landmark store in London, Patrick-Louis Vuitton shares why we love LV so.