The Heineken Open is famous for punching above its weight - but next month, the tournament will move into heavyweight territory.

Wearing a T-shirt which celebrated the life of her late boyfriend Connor Morris, Millie Elder-Holmes has described her biggest challenge ahead of her Fight for Life bout on Saturday.

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An organisation that houses Maori and Pasifika students so they are in zone for Auckland Grammar School will run a similar scheme for a nearby girls' school.

Hoping to shed the kilos? Watch the clock as much as calorie intake - scientists have discovered limiting the time span in which food is consumed can stop weight gain.

She won the praise of Our Lorde with her cover of the international pop anthem Royals, and American Airlines flight attendant Robyn Shayne has also gained more than half a million YouTube followers.

The magnificent and shy singer Susan Boyle has her first boyfriend at age 53 - a Connecticut doctor she met on her recent U.S. tour.

A small fibre-cement-board do-up cottage on a large tree-lined site in the Waitakere Ranges has been bought for TVNZ's new DIY reality show, Our First Home.

Prime Minister John Key and his wife, Bronagh, ticked off 30 years of marriage yesterday - and Mrs Key's gift for the man who has everything was a large white-rabbit ornament.

Hollywood's biggest names all want to be a part of television's new golden age and the latest to follow the trend are Oscar winners Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman.

A 7.8ha coastal section owned by descendants of one of the original settler families of Mangawhai is on the market for the first time in 125 years.

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Amateur boxing champion Hurricane Doyle, the daughter of convicted murderer and president of the Head Hunters East chapter Wayne Doyle, is training Millie Elder-Holmes.

Hoax trailers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens dupe fans as internet eagerly awaits genuine glimpse of JJ Abrams' take on Luke and the gang.

They're one of the world's biggest boy bands, who've recorded four albums in four years.

Most of us eat three square meals a day, every day. But, for most of human history, that would be a very unusual situation, writes Tom Chivers.

Crowdsourcing has become one of the commercial buzzwords of the internet age, but for many sporting organisations around New Zealand sourcing crowds is of greater importance.

The winner of a $16.2 million Lotto Powerball jackpot is losing $2000 in interest each day the prize remains unclaimed.

Director of Moses epic says it would be impossible to finance films if his lead actor was an unknown called "Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such".

Lorde has told talk show host Jimmy Fallon she was once mistaken for Taylor Swift's manager.