A star of an unintentionally hilarious promo video for a small travel agent has described the women in it as ‘like the Virgin Airways girls only bigger’.

As an infant, Sophie Oliver had a children's Barbie ring stuck in her throat for five months before it was removed by a surgeon at Starship.

A lamb born with two heads is healthy and thriving - something its owners were not expecting when it was born four days ago.

A humorous look at what happens when taxidermy goes very wrong, by the founder of crappytaxidermy.com

At 24 his virginity passed on! It ceased to be - expired and gone to meet its maker! An ex-virginity. Thanks, NZ.

Images are extracted from Crap Taxidermy by Kat Su, RRP $19.99, available 30 September where all good books are sold.

Burglars forced entry to an eco house being built in Christchurch - stealing a fully-constructed wall from the lounge. Is it a case of industrial espionage?

Tauranga has been put on the celebrity-pooch map after global superstar Lady Gaga bought a month's worth of dog food from a Tauranga company.

A bank worker in the UK tried to kill her "manipulative and controlling" magistrate mother with a deadly poison bought over the internet, in a plot inspired by Breaking Bad.

Intrepid travellers looking for a new thrill might want to seek out these unusual beauty treatments.

This may simply be a video of a dog in a spider outfit, but the man who created it made sure it was scary enough to make real people run for cover.

Weighing more than seven Tyrannosaurus rex, or a modern Boeing 737, and longer than a swimming pool, a newly discovered species of dinosaur would have "feared nothing" scientists say.

They were meant to relocate a blackbird's nest and eggs from a central Dunedin traffic light. Instead the contractors dropped the eggs.

Hotel concierges handle the most outlandish guest requests. John O'Ceallaigh shares some (barking) stories.

For one guardsman, the monotony of walking back and forth outside the Queen's London residence just got too much.

A man has been arrested after he started a chainsaw during a heated argument at a service station and advanced on another man with the chain running.

After spending almost 600 days circumnavigating New Zealand's coastline, Brando Yelavich has set his sights on television.

More than $41,000 has been stolen from the accounts of four passengers aboard the doomed MH370 flight.

Xiao Yunzhi was taking a stroll in Guangyuan, China, when his head started feeling strangely heavy.

Police have released CCTV images showing the moment a child in a buggy on a London Underground platform was blown onto the track by a gust of wind.

The Indian Government is hiring men to pose as menacing langur monkeys to scare off the hundreds of macaques terrorising MPs and staff around its buildings.

An orbital sex mission by five Russian geckos has gone from lust in space to lost in space.

A dog who spent 30 hours trapped down a cold, four metre-deep hole was joined down there by her owner’s cat.

As they posed for a celebratory selfie to mark their first win in the Commonwealth Games, these two Australian hockey players probably didn't think their day could get any better.

A US state tourism department has mistakenly used a photograph of Auckland’s Tamaki Drive bike path to promote its scenic cycle paths.

Footage has emerged of the extraordinary moment a dying great white shark tried to beach itself in Australia after biting off more than it could chew.

A Catholic priest has been arrested in Italy on suspicion of dealing drugs at a party.