Standing on snakes and having trees fall on him are all in a day's work for the archaeologist who's been called Auckland's Indiana Jones.

Prime Minister John Key and his wife, Bronagh, will be spending a weekend with the Queen at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.

Montana wines as we know them will soon disappear from the shelves - in name only.

More on the bizarre and bewildering story of the French players' revolt at the World Cup and its sequel.

Toulouse is showing the rest of Europe how it can clean up its cities and go green, writes Peter Bills.

Peter Bills is captivated by a cyclist's paradise in the south of France.

New Zealand's answer to Gordon Ramsay is making waves in Sydney's food scene. Nicky Pellegrino reports.

Fine wine is no longer the preserve of the elite.

The two surviving daughters of multiple-infant killer Dominique Cottrez describe her as a doting mother who selflessly devoted herself to her family.

Veronique Courjault was convicted last year of murdering three of her newborn children. Her husband discovered two of the corpses in a freezer.

Julian Dean's three podiums in this year's Tour de France have him pegged by some as this country's greatest peddler.

Dominique Cottrez is likely to be branded the worst serial baby killer to appear before a French court.

A group of young Kiwi cyclists have a plan they hope will take them all the way to the Tour de France.