Air New Zealand is to increase the number of direct flights between Australia and Queenstown this winter.

The crew of a NZ trimaran harassing Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean had to be rescued after their boat was allegedly rammed and sunk by a Japanese ship, anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says.

Here today, gone tomorrow. Joanna Hunkin looks at the international fascination with pop-up bars and their rise in New Zealand.

Mary MacKillop is set to become Australia's first saint after Pope Benedict XVI approved her second miracle.