German automaker Volkswagen plans to admit guilt to settle investigations in regards to its emissions cheating scandal.

The European Union seems keen for a trade agreement with New Zealand.

How much do teenagers - and adults - understand what they've agreed to give up when they sign up with social media sites?

Young migrants are being hidden and sheltered by French villagers near the Italian border, who sometimes help them to slip undetected into the country.

Bill English leaves today for a trip to Brussels, London and Berlin - his first trip since former PM John Key stood down last December.

A woman claims to have realised £7million of her gold is missing nearly two years after the Hatton Garden jewellery raid.

The mother of missing Que Langdon believes her former partner is fully capable of deliberately disappearing with their little girl.

Social media giants have been accused by UK officials of confusing children into signing away their privacy. Youngsters desperate

A former All Black has proposed to his girlfriend in the city of love.

Property prices have climbed to dangerous levels in several advanced economies, posing grave risks, the OECD warns.

COMMENT: While the proposal is good in theory, it's no panacea for the challenges of our modern economy.

Kiwis in London are mourning the loss of a popular local watering hole which burned down in a New Year's Eve blaze.

According to data published by HSBC Holdings, it pays to be an expatriate in Switzerland - literally.

Turkish authorities are hunting a lone gunman who opened fire at one of Istanbul's most popular nightclubs, killing 39 and wounding 70.

French workers have won the right to ignore all work emails outside of the office.

It's not just the pagoda roof turret that gives the Annandale Distillery in Scotland an Asian feel.

European capitals tightened security ahead of New Year's celebrations, erecting concrete barriers in city centres and stepping up police numbers.

It sounds like something out of 1950s science fiction: a blob-like organism that's made up of one giant cell and which can learn despite having no brain.

Getting your kids to turn off their phones can turn into one endless nag, writes Emily Shelley.

Here are five unlikely black swan events that might catch everyone unawares in the coming year.

Stranded on a train track for 2 days, this terrified dog faced certain death. But thanks to her loving companion, Lucy survived the horrifying ordeal.

All the toilets on a trans-Atlantic flight were unusable.

As part of our Summer Herald, Kiwis are recalling their brushes with celebrity. Today, John Lamplough tells of the time he pulled a pint for Status Quo.

Russians agonise over how to remember the 1917 revolutions.

Brighton's 162m British Airways i360 is the tallest moving observation tower in the world.

The Star Wars series featured a man-made planet called the Death Star which destroys other worlds with a giant laser.

A little girl has been reunited with her favourite teddy after she accidentally left him behind in Auckland Airport when her family moved to Germany.

Truck driver did not give up the keys easily to terror suspect who then rammed vehicle into crowded Christmas market.

Apple has furiously rejected charges from Brussels that it should pay €13 billion in unpaid Irish taxes.

A boy dubbed "The Kindergarten Bomber" is accused of planting a nail bomb near a Christmas market in Germany.