Size-zero models have been kicked out of fashion features.

The New Zealand-born Dutch girl who wants to sail solo around the world is now being allowed to go, after all.

While you nurse your New Year hangover, the World's Strongest Man will be busy lifting cars.

A new PM defied the odds as the Govt struggled to deal with the worst recession in decades, and Labour played catch up politics.

Here today, gone tomorrow. Joanna Hunkin looks at the international fascination with pop-up bars and their rise in New Zealand.

Many nations fear rising water levels, but the Netherlands already has practical experience.

That's it then - another year of spouting, pronouncing and sticking the occasional spanner in the works.

High standards and lower costs have helped to gain contracts from international pharmaceutical firms.

What kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis?

Mary MacKillop is set to become Australia's first saint after Pope Benedict XVI approved her second miracle.

Prime Minister John Key remains hopeful of a deal at Copenhagen but thinks if progress is to be made ambitions may need to lower.

John Key will enter climate talks tonight with the power to up NZ's 10-20 per cent target for emissions cuts, but he is very unlikely to use it.