Ross Taylor has acknowledged the importance of spin as the Black Caps prepare for their final pre-World Cup warm-up match against India.

Travel in India is exciting but not for the faint-hearted. Chris Reed journeys through three regions.

Black Caps all rounder James Franklin believes his days of opening the bowling are over.

Keen to impress on Valentine's Day? Knock your beloved's socks off with a classic Gallic dish.

Gill South gets her moles checked by an Auckland expert dedicated to the cause.

Heavy monsoon rains have forced the International Cricket Council to move World Cup warm-up matches from Sri Lanka's Pallekele stadium, tournament organisers said Thursday.

It's getting easier for darker skinned women to find makeup that suits, but equal choice is still a work in progress.

Rumours were rife yesterday that one of NZ's rep cricketers had found a different kind of form in the airspace over the Indian Ocean.

Black Caps management has cleared player Tim Southee of alleged lewd behaviour on a flight from Sydney to Dubai.

A passenger on an Emirates flight says a Black Caps player has been involved in an incident with a woman on a flight between Sydney and Dubai.

Veteran batsman Mike Hussey and spinner Nathan Hauritz have been forced out Australia's World Cup squad by injury.

Black Caps batsman Kane Williamson will not leave on today's flight with the team to India for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011.

The thick fog which had settled over New Zealand's one-day game has lifted, if just a shade.

Max Gimblett is one of our most beloved painters. Rebecca Barry met him in his New York studio and learned about his creative process.

The ICC learned nothing from the last World Cup if the format for this one is any guide, writes Andrew Alderson.

The family of a young mother burnt to death in the Waikato have been stunned by her death. Police today confirmed they had tracked down her husband Diwesh Sharma in Fiji, after help from the local Fijian community.

The husband and son of a young mother burnt alive on the side of a rural road near Huntly have been found in Fiji. NZ Police said the boy was found when Fijian police located his father.

Fiji police have refused to confirm that a man wanted in connection with the death of his wife near Huntly last week has been caught.

A young mother left burning to death on a rural road was in a violent marriage to a man now the focus of an international manhunt.

Even half an hour in Kolkata's Malik Ghat flower market is sufficient to overwhelm the senses, writes Jill Worrall.

Jim Eagles finds himself taken for a white-knuckle ride.