R&B superstar Usher has stunned fans in Los Angeles by posing as a masked street performer, before revealing his true identity.

When I cried in public, I refused to hide it - not at funerals, not at the movies when the house lights came up...

Sky TV's drone camera has been grounded until the Cricket World Cup following an incident in Dunedin.

A Kiwi adventure pilot who decided to strap mountain bikes under the wings of his plane is surprised to find himself suddenly world famous.

Being cheated on is betrayal of trust - the knowledge that the rules were broken. It hurts a lot, writes Jill Goldson.

Chris Pratt has quickly become an A-list star after making Guardians Of The Galaxy a massive hit last year - the adventure spoof film brought in $800m internationally.

In October, he debuted his thinner frame at the Birdman premiere in New York.

In less than a week in this still-new year I've found two reasons to take television seriously, though I'm sure the feeling won't last.

As the Breakers warmed down after a long, physical training session at their Mairangi Bay gym yesterday, the team's 16-year-old prodigy, Tai Wynyard, was out on the floor practising dunks.

It hasn't been the best month for singer Sam Smith.

One day of filming for Z for Zachariah was so unbearably cold, Margot Robbie and her co-stars had to keep warm by swigging whisky.

Hershey’s has won a legal battle that means British-made Cadbury's chocolate can't be sold on American shelves.

Prime Minister John Key has said apartments are an option for first-home buyers. Property editor Anne Gibson explores the pros and cons.

If there's a year that Laneway has come of age, mark it down as this one.

The winning sculpture at a New Zealand outdoor art exhibition is among a number of works vandalised in the opening weekend of the free public event.

"When I left the CIA, if you were going to ask me, 'Would you write about espionage?' I'd say, 'Absolutely not.' So why are former CIA officers turning up in Hollywood?

An episode for the upcoming season of Germany's Next Top Model will be filmed in Auckland next week.

"Potatoes, thank goodness! That's a good start," former Mythbusters host Grant Imahara says as he goes on to reveal the 13 other ingredients contained in the US version of the McDonald's fry.

Serial pranker George Clooney has struck again. Actress Evan Rachel Wood was pranked by her Ides of March co-star George Clooney at the Venice Film Festival in Italy.

Recent research suggests carbohydrate-rich foods may not be helping exercise recovery as previously thought and their potential link with metabolic diseases are raising questions.

A Kickstarter campaign by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi to raise $400k to self-distribute their vampire movie What We Do in the Shadows in the US has been criticised.

Tree campaigners are vowing to go to court if Auckland's roading authority presses on with plans to chop down six 80-year-old pohutukawa.

Lindsay Lohan has been hospitalised in London with a rare virus.

William Roache brought his Coronation Street co-stars to tears with an emotional tribute to Anne Kirkbride at the National Television Awards.

How much longer can the show really go on before it's deemed too tired and risky for the BBC to bother with?

A Channel 7 tennis commentator has caused outrage at the Australian Open after asking Canadian tennis star Eugenie Bouchard to "twirl" on live TV.

'The irony is unbelievable.' A breastfeeding conference in Scotland told nursing mothers it 'wasn't appropriate' to breastfeed at the event.

A rare and terrifying frilled shark has been pulled from the water by fishermen near Lakes Entrance in Victoria, Australia.