It's now that shops start to push their various diet supplements, that magazines and newspapers pontificate on the new year's new you.

A three-day Indian wedding taking place in Auckland is possibly the biggest, fattest wedding party this city has seen.

They may not be able to exchange wedding rings, but a couple who survived a four-car smash will be united forever by matching scars.

Smelling a woman's tears can quell a man's sexual desire, a study has found.

An Auckland suburb came to a standstill today as a Bollywood-style Indian wedding procession brought the streets alive with colour and dancing - but no white lions or cheetah cubs.

China's exploding wealth has created a culture of secret mistresses and second wives.

Men and women who are in relationships for longer than five years are less likely to be depressed, researchers have found.

David Bain has spoken out about his search for love and the difficulties of dating in a country where most people know his name.

Two cousins who were separated by South Africa's racial laws 40 years ago have been reunited in Auckland.

Ira*, a social worker through the 1990s, left the front lines because she was sick of seeing so many abused children being returned to their wider families.

Most of us are just plain worn out, yet we long to create and achieve the kind of holiday time sold to us by the media.

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

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has become engaged for the third time at the age of 84 - to his current 'number one girlfriend'.

The country's most successful equestrian has split with his wife of 24 years and upped sticks permanently to England.

Unprecedented numbers of small babies are in the care of unqualified home-based carers.

Babies are best at home with their parents, says one of the few blokes in the country who provides home-based childcare.

Scott Kara reflects on a year of his young daughter's ups and downs.

Zara Phillips has announced her engagement to rugby player Mike Tindall.

The Wedding Crashers actor's wife Kyla Weber gave birth to a baby girl in Chicago on Saturday and the couple have decided to name the 7lbs tot Locklyn Kyla Vaughn.

The Still The One singer and Frederic Thiebaud are set to marry after the Swiss-born Nestle business executive popped the question two months ago in his native country.

It is with huge regret and disgust that once more, New Zealanders wake up to find 'caregivers' accused on brutally assaulting their children.

Elizabeth Hurley has reportedly dumped Shane Warne just a week after their relationship was made public.