British households will face a tight squeeze on living standards from higher-than-expected inflation over the next year.

A field hospital has been set up in the heart of London's financial district to treat blind-drunk corporate revellers.

Hundreds of stranded New Zealanders might be able to make it home for the holidays after all with the news that London's Heathrow Airport is due to reopen on a limited basis this evening, New Zealand time.

Winter in Belgium's Ardennes will forever be linked with Nazi Germany's last great offensive of World War II.

He is from another era of current affairs television and tonight (Friday afternoon NZ time) that era will end.

The mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has condemned Swedish prosecutors' decision to lodge an appeal blocking her son's freedom.

With her infectious cackle and outrageous dress sense, Anna Dello Russo - influential blogger, editor-at-large, street-style icon - is putting the fun back into dressing up, and gathering a huge following in the process.

The founder of WikiLeaks has issued a plea from jail for his supporters to keep fighting, accusing Visa, Mastercard and Paypal of being instruments of US foreign policy.

So says the excited UK press, with fresh tabloid reports stating the unlikely pair's relationship is more than a fling.

Shane Warne is reported to be having an affair with British model Liz Hurley, who says she's separated from her husband.

Mohamed Taranissi, the so-called 'bad boy of the fertility world' is still Britain's most successful IVF specialist.

A speeding driver has been ticketed by the same policeman on both sides of the world.

The parents of the lone New Zealand victim of the July 7 2005 terror attacks in London paid tribute to the Pike River miners when they addressed an inquest into the bombings.

Good-looking couples are more likely to have daughters than plainer parents, according to a study.

This fabulous annual festival of wordless performance spans the full mime spectrum, including live art, physical theatre, circus and puppetry.

They're not the favourite bands of most critics, but that's not important for Pendulum, writes Gillian Orr

There are moments in life when you feel the universe is telling you - as politely as possible - that you have become a Fat Bastard.

New Zealand's road to the 2012 London Olympic begins in Adelaide this weekend at the Oceania track championships.

In London last Tuesday a Latvian, Janis Nords, was caught trying to skip out on a £1000 ($2050) bill at the St James's St restaurant L'Oranger.

Israeli David Grossman tells Helen Brown how writing helps him cope with grief.

The news of Prince William's engagement to Kate Middleton was particularly well received in an iconic small cafe on the Hauraki Plains.

The 'woman behind the mask' has recalled the fateful day of the London bombings.

Those of us who were adults in July 1981 will never forget Charles and Diana's wedding. So how will Prince William and Kate Middleton's compare?