Ireland have beaten the All Blacks in Chicago and social media is going nearly as mad as the Irish fans at Soldier Fields stadium.

Eltham teddy bear involved in international kidnapping case. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The Catalan capital may be more famous for Gaudi and tapas, but it has dozens of great bookshops, too.

A bombshell hit London this week: Mark Carney, the most powerful man in the British economy, will only be in his job until mid-2019.

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has warned British PM Theresa May that the upcoming Brexit talks may prove "quite vicious".

Is Brussels sprouting a new reputation as the cool capital of Europe? Michael Lamb took the tour ...

A young Kiwi entrepreneur has put his study skills to the test and set up a business to help other students pass their exams.

Tick off another destination on your bucket list with a stopover en route to Europe, writes Caroline Berdon.

The number of British Jews applying for German citizenship has gone up exponentially this year.

Lara Woods writes of how her mum Carolyn got entangled and ended up losing everything.

There is a house in western Germany that looks like a typical child's drawing. Unlike a structure born from a child's imagination, though, this was a house of nightmares.

A passenger on board the Monarch flight said a man had set fire to his hands with lighter fuel.

A tiny Russian "exclave" in Europe is now a dangerous flashpoint, as tensions between Russia and the West intensify.

The extent of the collusion between the BBC and the police to arrange for a raid on Sir Cliff Richard's home to be shown live on television has been revealed.

This ultimate pub crawl covers 24,727 pubs across 45,000 kilometres and would take three years to complete - that's a lot of drinking.

It's easy to bask in the luxury yacht club philosophy of Sea Dream, finds Richard Lawson.

New Zealand edged out Singapore as the easiest country for doing business in the World Bank's latest rankings.

A search for intelligence on Uncle George takes Phil Vine deep inside the headquarters of East Germany's tyrannical Stasi.

Vladimir Putin's armed fleet heads for Dover as Moscow moves ships from the Mediterranean in 'Operation Sea Fist'.

Copenhagen has 320km of dedicated cycle lanes. Free bikes are available from 110 locations throughout the city.

Skifield says the hazard did not exist when its morning inspection was done.

Detectives have reopened an investigation into the murder of two 11-year-old boys who were beaten and buried alive on a rubbish dump in Liverpool 36 years ago.

Four people were killed and 14 injured when a balcony collapsed in Angers, western France, during a housewarming party, local authorities and media said.

Bureaucratic bungling blamed for man wanted on sex offences in UK being able to gain NZ citizenship.

Norway's Statoil has abandoned its hunt for oil off Northland after finding no traces hydrocarbons.

A Wellington skier is critically injured after an accident on Mt Ruapehu which Peter Hillary witnessed from a chairlift before rushing to assist with the rescue.

The garden will be completed in time for the centenary of Passchendaele, finally a place of peace where far too many young NZers died in the horror of war.

A number of cars were crushed against the concrete ceiling when an underground carpark was deluged with water yesterday morning.

Every year, 300,000 'Sound of Music' fans make the journey to Salzburg, Austria.

Passengers on this Boeing 737 had a wild ride when coming in to land at Prague airport, a situation that won't be too unfamiliar to Wellington airport regulars.