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.

One of Auckland Zoo's two siamang gibbons has been put down, ending an 11-year life in which he was believed to have been severely depressed.

When Miss Israel beamed her Crest-commercial grin for a selfie with Miss Lebanon last week, she likely didn't know the Instagram would become international headline news.

Kale, quinoa and kombucha ruled the trendy healthful-food scene in 2014. But what will take center stage in 2015?

The actor who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars films has been taken to hospital suffering from pneumonia.

"This buggy signifies everything that ended my happy low cost child free life."

Broadcaster Tony Veitch married his longtime partner Lisa Bryan last Friday in a private, intimate ceremony at Mangere's Kelliher Estate on Puketutu Island.

The idea that a woman could carry a child to a full-term delivery without knowing she is pregnant is mind-boggling. It has to be denial, or worse, right?

It's nominated for six Oscars but American Sniper has become a laughing stock for its use of a fake baby.

The Police armed offender squad searched a house in the Auckland suburb of Panmure this morning looking for a man who fired a gun in an incident yesterday.

This is the miraculous moment a driver survived being crushed between two big rigs in a nightmare pileup on an icy freeway.

The number of people sleeping rough in Auckland's streets and parks has more than doubled as the city's housing crisis deepens.

Legend has it that a ghost walks the halls of the Rangiriri Tavern, known affectionately to locals and travellers alike as "the Rango".

An American lottery employee has been arrested in the latest twist of the strange case of an unclaimed US$14.4 million ($18.48 million) lottery jackpot.

We may have seen our first showers of 2015 yesterday, but the Auckland region is soaking up its driest start to summer in almost a decade.

Pack your togs and your walking shoes - Sculpture on the Gulf is back. Donna McIntyre gives the low-down on what's new at the exhibition this year.

Stunned staff and some 100 swimmers watched in disbelief as a fun-loving sea lion waddled through reception and cafe to "swim laps" in a public pool yesterday.

Alex Casey revels in the highs and lows of Daniel Corbett, the endearing One News weatherman and replacement for Jim Hickey in our hearts.

Lorde's failure to land an Academy Award nomination has drawn the ire of Oscar-watchers and US music critics.

Summer Diary wraps this week, so we sat down with three of New Zealand's biggest acting exports, Danielle Cormack, Anna Hutchison and Sara Wiseman, to talk about their holiday exploits and why they chose to come home to Auckland.