The child injury prevention service of Starship Children's Health and Auckland Council rangers have come up with a list of the city's safest, child-friendliest, parks for the sunshine months

Harbour views, sunny spaces, public events and safer, greener places for kids to play could all be part of the Auckland waterfront's future.

Another week in exile for Adam Thomson, another stamp in his passport. The latest is that of the British Embassy, following his journey to London where he has joined the Barbarians in their exclusive Park Lane hotel.

Unlike video games that had spectacular success and then fizzled Minecraft is a create-it-yourself platform that has staying power.

Cats are cuter than babies and dogs when it comes to the popularity of videos, new research shows.

I'm sure if MacGyver had had a smartphone this would have been the plot of at least one episode of the TV show. Scientists in rural Tanzania used their smartphone as an improvised microscope to diagnose schoolchildren with intestinal worm infections.

Just about everyone has some point in their life checked their resting pulse rate. Self-trackers go further, using apps and other devices to find out as much as possible about their bodies.

Ask David Taylor the differences between men's and women's tennis and there's a short and long answer. "It's a different sport," he says.

Next weekend sees the Auckland champs of the little known sport of disc golf. Similar in many ways to traditional golf, the frisbee-based sport is gaining in popularity as a fun way of competing in some of the country's best parks.

There are three simple rules to ensure that every time you buy a really good bottle of NZ wine you can be assured of absolute quality.

Opshop's Jason Kerrison says their third, and best, album is a rebirth, despite its apocalyptic title. The band tell Scott Kara about their different direction.

One way or another, Sydneysiders will be introduced to rugby - and New Zealand - later this year.

The great question of our modern times is, surely, where do people from Amsterdam go for their stag nights?

Jill Worrall visits the DMZ and finds tensions heating up.

Kerri Jackson ponders whether Dubai is the perfect long-haul stopover.

South Korea's capital is greener than I expected, the air cleaner. There's also rather more fried chicken than I expected.