She's cute. She's noisy. And she's nobody's fool. But it hasn't all been roses for singer-songwriter Kate Nash. She talks to Elizabeth Day about self-doubt, music industry sexism and her second album

Fashion house Hardy Amies is to abandon its heritage as the provider of pink silk gowns to the monarch and focus on a different clientele.

A masked gang armed with machine guns and pistols have staged a spectacular robbery at a Swiss casino.

The NZ author's story Last Season's Man, beat more than 1150 entries from published authors around the world.

Former immigration boss Mary Anne Thompson today escaped a jail sentence for fraudulently using her CV to secure senior public service jobs.

Amy Winehouse wants a baby. The Rehab singer has reportedly been open about her plans to start a family with Blake Fielder-Civil.

The 2010 prize for the best baguette de tradition, or traditional baguette, in Paris has been won by a man born in Senegal.

Flight of the Conchords seem to be doing okay when it comes to "business time" (that's not a euphemism).

Under French tradition, Dominique de Villepin's political hopes should be 'dead in the water'.

Production of cars has restarted at Saab's Trolhättan plant in Sweden after an interruption of seven weeks while the brand was sold to its new owner Spyker Cars.

Sandra Bullock is reportedly on the hunt for a high-end divorce lawyer.

Two years after escaping her underground prison, she lives in a brightly painted house in a tiny hamlet referred to as "Village X".

Fresh evidence has emerged that British military intelligence ran a secret operation in Iraq which authorised degrading and unlawful treatment of prisoners.