Jennifer Lawrence "freaked out" when Lorde visited the set of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1.

Court documents obtained by TMZ reveal that Williams was suffering devastating form of dementia as well as Parkinson's.

Regular cannabis use shrinks the brain but increases the complexity of its wiring, a study has found.

New restrictions proposed for signs advertising everything from house sales to prostitution have been contested at an Auckland Council hearing.

This much is clear: we've reached peak lunacy when it comes to evaluating test match referees, and the character assassination of Nigel Owens this week is the proof.

German supermodel Heidi Klum is expected to make a special appearance to support the Auckland Warriors at the Dick Smith NRL Auckland Nines tournament on January 31.

Mariah Carey jetted into Auckland under cover of darkness yesterday.

A British-born Australian woman who had a child using in-vitro fertilisation fell in love with the man who was her anonymous sperm donor.

Lorde stepped out onto the red carpet of the London premiere of the new Hunger Games film, Mockingjay Part 1.

It is one of New York's most successful law firms, a company that has won US$3 billion ($3.85 billion) in payouts for sick Ground Zero workers, diet pill users and asbestos cancer sufferers.

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has joined the ranks of Lorde fans, calling her hit song Royals a “revolution in the sea of bullshit”.

Our Food, Your Questions: McDonald's has given the Herald an exclusive look at the questions being asked by consumers here.

Brooke Fraser's new album Brutal Romantic will be released this Friday - but you can listen to it here first, for free, all week.

Pioneering Auckland DJ and dance music producer Soane is being mourned by family, friends and fans after his death at the weekend of a heart attack.

Food writer and mother of two, Anna King Shahab, reveals her top ten ways to cut your food bill, but still eat well.

All Black Sonny Bill Williams has dedicated his performance against England to a cousin who died unexpectedly this month.

As New Zealand schools await for another decile review post 2013 census - we explore different data sets related to the decile system.

The All Blacks beat England 24-21 at Twickenham this morning. Here are a few examples of how the English media reacted after the game.

Fewer women than men choose to go into tech-intensive fields and if they do, are significantly more likely to leave the tech industry.

Whatever it may have looked like, the All Blacks can take a fair amount of pride and satisfaction from their efforts at Twickenham.

The Foo Fighters' new album Sonic Highways will be released next Monday but you can hear it first - for free - right here on the Herald site.

The public will get the chance to look into how the other half - or maybe the other 1 per cent - lives, with a tour through the homes of Auckland's elite in some of the city's swankiest suburbs on November 22.

At the All Blacks' first significant training session of the week in London, a rare warm, sunny early November day makes way for dark clouds that roll in from the west, the rain soaking the players....

The unlikely union between the All Blacks, a Maori moko, a Downton star and an Italian jeweller...

Good old Kiwi ingenuity on a shoe-string budget could see the world's first unmanned aerial vehicle for long-range search and rescue operational within the next two years.

Four of the best parks and outdoor spaces to take your kids.