Unseeded American John Isner is the first man to advance through to the final at the Heineken Open in Auckland.

UK politician Nick Clegg, has found himself offside with parenting "guru" Gina Ford, after an interview in which he blasted Ms Ford's advice for parents of newborns.

John Key says progress has been made on a deal which would end Japanese whaling in Antarctica.

A ban on children under 18 using sunbeds in the UK will move a step closer today after the Government agreed to back a private member's Bill.

Director Guy Ritchie is following his ex-wife Madonna into the music industry - by launching his own record company.

Katy Perry has sparked pregnancy rumours after posting a series of cryptic messages on Twitter.

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page is back in the spotlight, starring in a documentary about the joy of electric guitar which captures him trading licks with U2's The Edge and young disciple Jack White.

A young German tourist hit and killed by a truck wrote of aggressive Kiwi drivers just a few days before her death.

Details that have been emerging on Northern Ireland's 'first couple of politics' have the country aghast.

The double--hyphen,compulsory for double-barrelled surnames in France since 2005, has been ruled ungrammatical and un-French.

The final plot to oust Gordon Brown began yesterday not with a bang, but with a cock-up.

A spurned woman poisoned her former lover and his new fiancee by lacing their curry with an ancient poison, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.

Small and unassuming, this Italian charmer is a case study in how to conjure something sublime from the most modest of materials.

When Jason Reitman flew to Italy to convince George Clooney to be in his movie, both were relieved when all the pieces fit together at the outset.

Flavio Briatore has been let off a lifetime ban from Formula One by a French court.

Millions of people living in southern England and the Home Counties were told to prepare themselves for up to 40cm of snow last night as Britain remained in the grip of the longest prolonged spell of cold weather for 30 years.

Following the marriage of President Jacob Zuma to his fifth wife, the Independent looks at the arguments for and against polygamy.