Lunch still for wimps but technology and social change has toned down macho image

Power elite look down on the rest of us, but they still want to be admired. Well, tough.

P. Diddy is to play a detective in US TV series Hawaii Five-0.

Three years after the death of her lover Heath Ledger, actress Michelle Williams has an Oscar nomination. The Hollywood star talks candidly to Tim Teeman about grief, her daughter, her mania for cleaning — and her new film.

The human nose contains roughly 400 olfactory receptors, but no two people have the same sense of smell.

Yeasayer are back for Laneway, but don't expect a repeat of an infamous earlier trip, says Paula Yeoman.

How much you'll enjoy this novel from American actor and comedian Steve Martin will depend on how engaged you are with recent art history.

The slaughter in Tucson, in statistical terms, was pretty routine as US shooting sprees go.

Grab your diaries for Viva's essential guide to what everyone will be talking about in 2011. Here's to an eventful year.

The National Society of Film Critics on Saturday selected The Social Network as the best picture of 2010.

A new year, a new romance: Actress Meg Ryan and veteran rocker John Mellencamp are reportedly dating on the quiet.

An article on a New York society wedding that tore two families apart has unleashed a torrent of criticism.

Aidan is a thirty-something professional blogger, living a low-rent version of the high-life in post-9/11 New York. His relationship with his journalist girlfriend, Cressida, is strained; he's stuck in a bit of a rut.

Police in Long Island, New York fear they may have a serial killer on their hands.

Be true to yourself, and keep your inner Madoff where he belongs.

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

After a break, the Black Keys are back with an album they consider their best to date.

A New Zealander and his US-born wife have won an international competition looking for the 'world's best couple'.

Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese tells Mark Kermode about his new 3D film, Hugo Cabret, his movie-mad childhood - and how directing the acclaimed drama Boardwalk Empire opened his mind to the epic freedoms of television.

Bobbi Brown makes up the stars but her appearance advice is very down to earth.

Carey Mulligan and Kelly Osbourne are among the style-savvy celebrities recruited to an internet giant's new fashion website, which lets women create their own virtual boutiques stocked with clothes from favourite designers.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and actor Leonardo DiCaprio are an unlikely pairing of figureheads in the fight to save the tiger.

New Zealander Henry Hargreaves is an ex-model making a name for himself in the Big Apple with a book celebrating breasts.