The backlash has continued for axed X Factor New Zealand judges Natalia Kills and Willy Moon: fans say they're turning their backs on their music.

A Qatar Airways employee has been shamed by the airline's boss after he emailed a photo of her slumped on the floor to the entire workforce.

The "Dutchies" have again dominated the New Zealand Cheese Awards, taking out first place in all three main prizes in this year's competition.

David Leggat runs the rule over this week's quarter-finals.

There was no dignity in childbirth for Sabrine. She lay on a bed, exhausted, lurching in and out of consciousness.

Police have charged an Auckland bus driver with careless driving after he took his passengers on a shortcut on the wrong side of the road yesterday morning.

‘I killed them all of course’ - Murder case millionaire Robert Durst has made an unwitting TV confession.

Reliving the fraught decision, Robin Rinaldi wrote: "I refuse to go to my grave with no children and only four lovers. If I can’t have one, I must have the other".

Shortland Street star Amelia Reid-Meredith and her actor hubby Shadon Meredith have returned from a romantic Raratonga holiday with a surprising souvenir – a baby on the way.

Shelton Woolright is heavily rumoured to be one of the new judges on The X Factor New Zealand.

Azealia Banks references Lorde in a scathing interview with Playboy magazine in which she says she hates "everything" about America.

Harrison Ford has a head wound "the size of a pancake" according to a new report.

An Auckland man has described the moment he witnessed a Metrolink bus drive down the wrong side of the road on the North Shore this morning.

Rihanna is believed to be the first black model to feature as the face of one of the brand's campaigns.

A breathtaking video captures the moment a cyclist traverses an almost-vertical rock face to conquer the world's most dangerous trail.

It must be one of the weirdest health care procedures on offer and it just keeps getting weirder. Its clinical name: faecal transplantation.

The Blues' players are now on a bye week which represents a few days off to get away from what is becoming a train-wreck of a season.

Seven Sikh cricket fans were barred from entering Eden Park to watch India play Zimbabwe in a Cricket World Cup match on Saturday because they were wearing kirpans.

Dozens are feared dead on Vanuatu and up to 10,000 are homeless in the wake of Cyclone Pam.

The Duke and Duchess have placed an ad seeking a housekeeper and nanny, in the pages of the aristocratic magazine, The Lady.

Willy Moon towered over woman and hissed abuse at her in crowded Auckland bakery after she nosed into a carpark ahead of him. Read the woman's blistering letter in reply.

Jeremy Clarkson has given his biggest hint that he is ready to walk out on the BBC as witnesses revealed he was suspended after a ridiculous row over a steak.

The daughter of Gloriavale leader Neville Cooper, who walked out of the commune after 41 years, says the latest family to leave face a hard road.

AirAsia is keen to fly from New Zealand to Australia to connect with services to Asia, which could mean more bargain fares for holidaymakers.

Brendon McCullum asked a curious question of Mitchell McClenaghan after one delivery in the nets on Wednesday morning at Seddon Park.