Jurassic World star Chris Pratt is single-handedly keeping the US film industry all-American by refusing to leave the country to make movies.

Qatar Airways has won top airline at the Skytrax awards announced in Paris after nearly 19 million passengers voted.

A kid ate hash brownies on Shortland Street this week. This can only mean one thing: the whacky winter season is well and truly under way.

Are cats secretly laughing at us? Is all that purring, licking and being available for stroking just an elaborate ruse for food and a warm place to sleep?

The incredible travels of a hefty great white shark named Pip are helping scientists rewrite the book on everything we thought we knew about the feared species.

Nearly 6000 new apartments are set to be built across Auckland over the next three years, with most planned for suburban and city fringe areas, new research reveals.

Ousted Dancing with the Stars contestant Colin Mathura-Jeffree claims he was misrepresented on the TV3 show as a "cliched gay boy".

Just when TV fans didn't think they could take any more heartbreak, Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad played a pretty cruel prank on fans of the popular drama.

McDonald's NZ has reported a 2 per cent lift in revenue to $221m as the business grapples with falling sales globally.

The flat white is a Kiwi favourite. But the classic espresso coffee's price can be as variable as Auckland's weather.

New Zealand are much closer to that elusive 80-minute performance after dispatching France in their World Under 20 Championship semifinal.

Scientists have captured the moment a white blood cell dies - and the results are spectacular.

Three years on the sidelines? That would be the worst case scenario for Trent Boult following his latest back injury.

Love sport? Tony Veitch is extending his portfolio with NZME to 'spearhead the new digital age for sport and fans alike.'

Jase Hawkins and PJ Harding have sworn off junk food during June. Halfway through the month, they tell us their top 10 traps and tips to avoid them.

Life and Style columnist Lee Suckling tackles your modern etiquette and ethical predicaments, one reader-submitted query at a time.

We spend more time sick because we never take sick days, writes Matt Heath. Either way I won't be staying home. I'd rather die on the floor of my work than wimp out.

Newsworthy has celebrated its first week on air - but not everyone is a fan.

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. Former NRL prop Ben Ross has posted photos of the horror fracture he received while arm wrestling on live TV.

The Full House star - who played Uncle Jesse on the hit US sitcom - was pulled over by police in Beverly Hills after they noticed he was driving erratically.

34-year-old musician Ray J is treating Boogotti the Maltese to a special celebration at the Petrock Hotel and Spa in Encino, California, where guests will walk a red carpet to enter.

It's World Gin Day. To celebrate one of our favourite spirits we asked the very hip Rogue Society guys to give us their give favourite ways to drink it.

A prominent civil rights activist in the United States is facing investigation after her parents accused her of falsely passing herself off as black.

John Campbell - who rejected the offer to front TV3's revamped 7pm show and left MediaWorks - has held recent talks with Radio NZ bosses.

After 27 years of marriage is Homer Simpson leaving Marge?

She might be drinking an Oreo milkshake, but Lorde's new selfie drops a tantilising taster about where she's heading on her new album.

A recent study found that people living on busy roads could blame their bulging waistlines on the noise of the traffic.

On Sunday night Michael Meredith was named Auckland's top chef. At 6am the next morning he started making sandwiches for hungry children in Mangere.