This feline resident of a Swiss hostel has an important job to do.

EU's $20 billion tax bill for Apple could set the stage for wider battle and Google, Amazon and Starbucks among firms likely to face scrutiny.

Farmers and industry leaders are pressing the government to support domestic business.

Churches should have a 'bouncer' on the door throughout services to improve security an expert warns small parish churches are more at risk of attack.

While the Apple ruling doesn't directly threaten the 12.5pc rate, the Govt has promised to stand by executives it says are helping its economy.

The European Commission is expected to say Ireland provided Apple with illegal aid in return for creating jobs.

Xenia Taliotis stays at a Jacobean beauty in the southwest of England.

Fortified by bacon, beer and stoicism, Tom Hodgkinson sets off in the footsteps of JM Barrie to Eilean Shona.

The French town of Bayeux is better known for its tapestry, but Paul Mulrooney finds another reason to visit.

Way up in One Canada Square, in the Canary Wharf financial district, a map of post-Brexit London is flashing.

China's imports of dairy products jumped 26 percent in the 12 months ended June 30.

A British skydiver has died after his parachute failed to open during a jump in the French Alps.

Andrew Potter digs deep into his pockets for the ride from Heathrow to Paddington Station.

COMMENT: Low inflation, low wage growth is creating asset bubbles, exacerbating inequality and driving instability, writes Liam Dann.

Judy Skatssoon bridges a rocky Norwegian archipelago where fish is always the dish.

Diplomats tell us what Kiwis need to know about their homelands.

WATCH: NZ Herald Focus: New Zealand's biggest supermarket chain will not follow Italian waste minimisation moves, it says.

Shandelle Battersby finds the Palm Tree a haven from London's summer sun.

COMMENT: Concerns about the game from Iran, Russia, Israel and China may are by no means unfounded on technical grounds.

Once you're inside this cross-border hotel, you can walk from one country to the other in seconds.

Sarah Marshall enjoys the best of food and wine in the beautiful north of Portugal.

It's got hints of Hobbiton, but this whimsical hotel's a long way from Matamata.

A 90-year-old took an instruction on a piece of modern art at face value and started writing on it with a ballpoint pen.

Diplomats tell us what Kiwis need to know about their homelands.

A woman has been stabbed to death and five others injured in a vicious knife attack in Russell Square, central London.

Russell Blackstock returns to his birthplace to see why it has become an international tourist destination.

British research and innovation could suffer because of the vote to leave the European Union.

Police are hunting a killer Romeo after a young woman was gruesomely murdered after hooking up with a man she met online.

Geneva's airport was placed in lockdown yesterday after a jilted wife phoned in a false bomb threat to try to stop her husband leaving from the airport.

Deal seen as an endorsement of the "high-quality intellectual property" produced by Auckland-based Marker Metro.