No one from the UK arm of Bernard Madoff's fraudulent investment business will face prosecution, the Serious Fraud Office has decided.

Stevie Wonder and Muse are to headline this year's Glastonbury Festival.

Rockabilly beauty Katherine Gould talks us through her carefully constructed look.

Looking around the East End of London's financial district, it is hard to believe the crisis ever happened.

Asked to select a best-loved dress for a collectable tome, designers came up with some surprising choices.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been presented with more damaging evidence.

Open source boosts innovation, conference told.

Both are loving mothers, who after years of devoted care to their disabled children felt they had no choice but to take the law into their own hands but while one was allowed to walk free from court yesterday the other will go to jail.

George Clooney's Hope for Haiti Now telethon has raised US$57 million (NZ$79 million) so far.

The Flight of the Conchords' parodies have spoiled some music for us.

Chicagoans believe they have stolen a march on the French over Georges Seurat's painting and indeed they have.

A 3-D tribute to Michael Jackson is set to be shown at the forthcoming Grammy Awards, it has been revealed.

Dannii Minogue has revealed that before falling pregnant she feared she might be getting too old to have a baby.

Director Guy Ritchie is following his ex-wife Madonna into the music industry - by launching his own record company.

Katy Perry has sparked pregnancy rumours after posting a series of cryptic messages on Twitter.

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page is back in the spotlight, starring in a documentary about the joy of electric guitar which captures him trading licks with U2's The Edge and young disciple Jack White.

The final plot to oust Gordon Brown began yesterday not with a bang, but with a cock-up.

A spurned woman poisoned her former lover and his new fiancee by lacing their curry with an ancient poison, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.

British intelligence passed on to US authorities about a Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner - but he was not singled out as a particular risk, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's office said Monday.

Here today, gone tomorrow. Joanna Hunkin looks at the international fascination with pop-up bars and their rise in New Zealand.