With its eye fixed on the 2014 Fifa World Cup, Rio de Janeiro is finally undoing some of its worst urban planning.

Provide me with a rental car in foreign territory and I become geographically promiscuous.

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Jill Worrall discovers some of South Africa's hidden gems when she detours from the well-traversed Garden Route.

Jill Worrall visits the site of a former Cape Town prison where her grandfather was once incarcerated.

Travel blogger Jill Worrall explores the town where her Kiwi grandfather was briefly incarcerated during the Boer War.

Photos of the key moments from the Rugby World Cup match between the Wallabies and the Springboks at the Wellington Regional Stadium.

Rugby World Cup visitors can find their favourite snacks around town.

Tuition fees at New Zealand universities are among the highest in the world, according to a new report. New Zealand had the seventh-most expensive tuition fees for universities, with entrants paying more than $3600 a year.

Forty years in a blokey, sometimes unkind profession hasn't left a dent in the genial exterior of rugby's 'old bear'