The 26-year-old actress is said to be "smitten" with the 50-year-old actor after hooking up with him in January while she was staying at Los Angeles' Chateau Marmont hotel while she filmed We Bought a Zoo with Matt Damon.

Barry Coates writes that the Pacific is falling behind in the fight against poverty.

Yvonne Knipe-Ackermann, who died in January on her 73rd birthday, left her $800,000 Ponsonby home to Oxfam.

World have collaborated with the Pashmina Environment and Community Trust to present a range of luxury pashminas.

The NZ woman whose husband died in the Haitian quake hopes to start a foundation in his name focusing on youth, sports and education in Haiti.

The artists who rocked our world in 2009, home and away.