British food companies are selling products which contain meat from thousands of miles away but labelling them "British" or "traditional".

The NZ teacher crushed after crawling into an east Sussex wheelie bin following a night out earlier tried to share a taxi with two women he met at a pub, an inquest into his death hears.

With their cashmere sweaters and polished sling-backs, models at the Paris collections brought the upscale, impeccably groomed New York uptown girl of the mid-Nineties to mind.

Matadors, philosophers and politicians in Spain are embroiled in a furious debate over the bloody but emblematic sport of bullfighting.

NZ police defend their response after reports of a possible sighting of missing British girl Madeline McCann in a Dunedin shop.

Is this Madeleine McCann? A Dunedin security guard thought so, but Portuguese police declined to investigate.

The Independent's John Walsh speaks with the author of In Praise of Older Women as his erotic coming-of-age novel joins the ranks of Penguin Classics.

Man so enraged crew couldn't pay him on the spot that he ate his winning ticket.

A French anti-smoking campaign which showed teenagers having "oral sex" with cigarettes, has been abandoned.

Canada's crushing ice hockey victory over the Russians has given the host country something to smile about, after a frustrating first week.

Peter Bills explores the elegance of Venice on its intriguing and ancient Grand Canal.