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.

Melania Trump's hometown has grown into a lively and picturesque city filled with restaurants, cafes and nightclubs packed with foreigners.

Frumpy tourist towns in England may be poised for a post-Brexit boomlet.

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.

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.

The hit movie was released with the backing of Norway's tourist board, but the resulting onslaught of holidaymakers has led to a frosty reception from some communities.

The principal railway station for Disneyland Paris was evacuated after a 'suspicious package' was found inside.

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.

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.

The British economy appears to have had a last hurrah before Brexit.

On NZ Herald Focus, Donald Trump has appealed to Russia to release emails that Hillary Clinton did not hand over.

Judy Skatssoon keeps cool on a search for the stunning Northern Lights.

A modern app guides Adrian Schofield through battlefields of World War I's Western Front.