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.

Former footballer Sol Campbell has become the latest monied public figure to battle Labour's proposed "mansion tax" in Britain, claiming it is a levy on aspiration which he cannot afford to pay.

"Mad" Frankie Fraser, a gangland enforcer who mixed with many of Britain's most notorious underworld figures, has died in hospital aged 90.

The parents of a 14-year-old British boy murdered by a teenager he met on the internet are suing two police forces for failing to prevent his death.

One of the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby posted extremist messages on social media websites for six months without the authorities being alerted.

She is best-known for playing a high-flying Manhattan socialite, but Kim Cattrall has become embroiled in a furious row with Liverpool's mayor over the future of the city's green spaces.

Wellington-headquartered investor Robt. Jones Holdings has added to its commercial and industrial property portfolio and is turning its attention to the British market.

More than 80 years after the first modern sighting of Nessie, has the monster made a comeback?

The Prince of Wales intends to continue making "heartfelt interventions" in matters of national importance when he becomes king, rather than adopting the Queen's blanket impartiality on public affairs, close friends have said.

Make a plan before you leave ship and reap the rewards of your research, Pam Neville says. She shares some shore excursions from a recent Mediterranean cruise.

Daniel Scott tramps along the Norfolk coast with the help of a flying Kiwi.

A man with paranoid schizophrenia who beheaded a British grandmother had been wrongly released from a psychiatric unit for "feigning" his illness.

Rupert Murdoch prepares to complete the merger of his British, Italian and German pay-TV companies next week.

A plot to kill Queen Elizabeth at the Royal Albert Hall during the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance has been foiled.

Lord Toulson asked New Zealand's Solicitor-General the $50,000 question in the Privy Council in London this week.

Prince Charles has roasted Molly Meldrum in a tongue-in-cheek message coinciding with the 40th anniversary of Countdown.

Whether its an 18-year-old Scotch or a fancy cocktail, you'll be spoiled for choice in Edinburgh, says Paul Davies.

Wife killer Malcolm Webster will have his case reviewed.

The Privy Council last night heard that the Crown accepts Teina Pora suffers Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder - but it disputes it would've led to a different verdict.

An investment banker whose firm has a portfolio worth $8.2 billion, Gwyneth Paltrow's hairdresser and a fashion designer whose clients include the Duchess of Cambridge are among Kiwis profiled in a new documentary.

Looks like that poor little English rugby team is already running up the white flag or at least a distress signal. In other words, one con job over, and on to the next one.

For more than 400 years people have been celebrating the foiled plot by Guy Fawkes and his mates to blow up England's Parliament. Here's what you don't know.