With the 2010 Bad Sex Awards announced last week by the Literary Review, Arifa Akbar looks at the criteria for consideration and the judging process.

It's a girl. Oh well, there goes my grand plan of moulding another Benji Marshall or Dan Carter.

Stay-at-home mums are an endangered species these days. I was one once and even then it was hard work explaining why.

It's not often I let my husband fly solo, but when it came to the garage sale, it was the only way to go.

An Otago University study has challenged the idea that depression and anti-social behaviour are primarily influenced by genes.

Anjali Stewart and Rachel Easting are childhood friends and the designers behind Twenty-seven Names.

The real life story that inspired the film, The King's Speech, is one of the most extraordinary involving the British royal family in recent years.

The little-known tale of an Australian 'quack' who helped save the British throne from embarrassment is soon to be released.

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

Kiwi bride-to-be Anna Pilkington jokes that Kate Middleton and Prince William have copied her.

Two studies of human development, one launched in the 1970s and the other from earlier this year, reveal how different society is today.

The other night at Starship Hospital a total stranger didn't quite give me the shirt off his back - but it was close.

Striving for victory is good, but sometimes cooperating is better.

Royal watchers, romantics and well-wishers finally have a date: the royal wedding will take place on April 29 next year.

One mundane routine that this mother-of-two will never quite take to is restricting her diet in order to lose kilos of stored baby fat.

A woman described having a 'feeling in my guts' on the morning she found her sister brutally murdered.

The best-selling author of The Tipping Point has enraged social network users by dismissing their impact on real issues. It is, Tim Adams writes, just the latest salvo in an argument set to run and run.

The divorce of Eva Longoria and Tony Parker is turning into quite the soap opera. And if recent developments are anything to go by, it's not exactly amicable.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard now has no chance of avoiding a further, divisive, debate on gay marriage.

I loved it. I couldn't have been happier the other morning when I read of the engagement of William and Kate.

Not to brag, but Wills charmed us long before he ever charmed Kate Middleton.

This is what queen-in-waiting Kate Middleton's wedding dress would look like if top Kiwi designers had their way.