Team New Zealand, who have a second Med Cup title almost in their grasp, will look to finish the season off in style.

Conquering five cities in three countries over six days with nary a sword, stallion nor aircraft in sight can take it out of a girl.

Working NZ families pay 28 per cent of their net income on childcare, according to an OECD study. Dita De Boni examines the costs.

Forget the Large Hadron Collider, Cern's scientists have their hearts set on a new, $9.48 billion, 31km Linear Collider.

Swiss citizen Johann Hari wonders how Polanski, who boasted about his crime from exile, was allowed to get away with it.

Large Hadron Collider scientists say they have simulated the noise that might be made when a Higgs boson particle comes into being.

The man claimed his wife's death was a tragic accident - he had reversed once and hadn't seen what was behind him.

The singer's wife allegedly discovered he had been having an affair with a backing dancer after finding text messages on a secret phone.

The filmmaker said yesterday that the US is demanding his extradition from Switzerland on a 33-year-old sex case largely to serve him "on a platter to the media".

Businessman Eric Watson has had eight large screws inserted in his back as he recovers from a skiing accident.

Eric Watson is "up and about" in a Swiss private hospital after fracturing his back in a skiing accident.

Switzerland's laid-back capital proves the ideal place for flustered Euro-tourists to get their breath back, writes Graham Reid.

NZ is the fourth most economically free country in the world according to a US think tank and the Wall Street Journal.

A masked gang armed with machine guns and pistols have staged a spectacular robbery at a Swiss casino.

Ricki Herbert had no difficulty pointing to the critical moment in last night's controversial defeat to Sydney FC.

CERN plans a 12-month shutdown to repair a design flaw that could break apart world's most expensive scientific experiment - the Large Hadron Collider