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.

Couples in a rural town in Denmark have agreed to try to have more babies over the next few years as part of a deal with the council to keep public services running.

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?

"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.

James Blunt has written a scathing open letter to a British politician, branding him a "classist gimp" and a "prejudiced wazzock" for criticising the singer and Oscar-nominated actor Eddie Redmayne over their posh backgrounds.

You could be forgiven for judging yummy mummies as the most loathed women in the world. But this year, Grace Cormack is going to give up fit shaming.

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.

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

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

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

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.

As if we needed more opportunities to embarrass ourselves on Facebook, the world's largest social network is abuzz with a new and questionably worthwhile game.

The former student from Hamilton, won Miss Waikato in 1996 and was runner-up in Miss New Zealand the following year.

New year, new look for New Zealand golf pro Lydia Ko, who has ditched her signature glasses and hair tie for a new online bio pic.

More than a third of Kiwis believe fizzy and other sugary drinks should be taxed, a Southern Cross Health Society survey indicates.

Naya Rivera chose to share her beliefs on ethnicity and hygiene out loud and very publicly when she made an appearance on US chat show The View this week.