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".

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.

Prime Minister John Key will travel to South Africa to watch the All Whites play Italy in their soccer World Cup pool match this month.

Dismayed by the negative way it is portrayed in games, Russia is planning to promote itself with a series of patriotic titles.

Israel has said it will not accept a UN plan for a multinational investigation into the lethal commando raid on an aid flotilla.

Former New Zealand prime minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer has been suggested to lead an inquiry into the raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla a week ago.

Six days after Israel's bloody assault on an aid flotilla that left nine foreign protesters dead, nobody can recount precisely what happened.

Israeli forces seized a Gaza-bound aid vessel peacefully and without meeting resistance on Saturday.

British scientists have started an ambitious project aimed at searching for signs of extraterrestrial life on Mars.

David Bird had no time to react to his brother's final visit before he was shot in the head at pointblank range.

Whitehaven, England - A friend of one of the shooting spree's victims broke down in tears as she knelt alone to lay flowers at the spot where he died.