The online abuse aimed at the Harry Potter author JK Rowling after she donated £1 million to the Better Together campaign may have actually been the work of British spies, a senior Scottish politician has claimed.

Kiwi league star and ex-All Black Sonny Bill Williams will play and train for the next month without food or water during daylight hours because of his religious beliefs.

NZ has enjoyed a record fall in the road toll but road safety campaigners say there’s plenty of room for improvement.

You are just as likely to find Domino's New Zealand general manager Scott Bush in one of the 75 nationwide stores cutting pizza or delivering food.

While some were no doubt enjoying a lazy Sunday relaxing, the tough guys and gals were slogging through mud and crawling under sharp obstacles.

A young Kiwi scientist has spent the past few days playing chess with Richard Branson on his private island and being served lunch in the pool via a sushi boat.

The stars and the quieter achievers of the sporting world alike step it up for the challenge of the Commonwealth Games. Suzanne McFadden meets six of our top athletes heading to Glasgow.

The leader of the Internet Party talks about her nervousness, her wardrobe and the Dotcom mansion.

When her daughter was diagnosed with a life-threatening peanut allergy, Kiwi mum Lydia Monin turned her home into a nut-free zone. But life outside is a never-ending risk assessment, she says.

The recipe for Marmite could be rejigged to make it healthier in response to new Government plans to introduce nutrition rankings for all packaged food.

Auckland has been hit by power outages after a storm pushed across most of the region this evening.

Motorists should fill up now if they want to beat the tax going up on petrol on 1 July, says the AA.

A church which advertised that a prayer session could heal health problems including "incurable diseases" has been told to remove the advertisement.

With half of the World Cup teams heading home, we look back on the group stage of the 2014 World Cup and which teams and players stood out.

Breast cancer screening for women under 50 should stop in light of growing questions around how beneficial the practice is, health researchers say.

A new system which labels food using a star-based nutrition scale could mislead consumers, a nutritionist says.

Investigators say the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile abused victims aged from 5 to 75 - and may even have performed sex acts on the dead.

Chlamydia rates in Kiwis are on the decline, but New Zealand still has a much higher rate of infection than Australia.

War hero Willie Apiata drew on his own experiences as a fatherless child to help launch a foundation close to his heart.

Sally Ridge lost her legal battle to gain half of ex-partner Adam Parore's business and was told to pay costs of more than $100,000.

The owners of a house for sale in West Auckland have taken open-plan living to a new level, inserting an "en suite" complete with toilet into a bedroom, with no dividing walls.

Two inquiries have begun into the award of an $80,000 military contract after the Defence Minister was told the private company doing the work was owned and run by serving personnel.

A grey 6.6m Comsub, which the owner says has been used to explore waters near Half Moon Bay and Waiheke Island for the past few years, is for sale.

Having grown up in Christchurch and attended a largely Pakeha high school, Leonie Wethey finds she learns as much from the predominantly Pasifika students at Tamaki College as they learn from her.

A Christchurch couple's red zoned house will be auctioned tonight with a $1 reserve, but buyers have so far shown little interest.

Sally Ridge's appeal against a High Court decision has stumbled after she failed to pay $5880 as security for costs.