Google has began selling digital music in a direct challenge to Apple's iTunes and Amazon's online shop - ten years after the Apple service was launched.

When the language of love is lost in translation, Kiwi travellers are jumping online to sustain relationships.

Anyone hoping for a weekend fix to the global banking sector will have to wait a little longer - perhaps a lot longer.

It's boom time for the site once considered a fad, as tailored online ads take off.

It's become as overused as "the dog ate my homework", or "darling, I've never met this woman before" – and it's about as believable.