BBC journalist Sarah Teale was filming a report in the street about the harassment of women - then she became a victim herself.

This is the astonishing sight that greeted police officers investigating reports of "a few cannabis plants" in London.

John Key had #ponytailgate, David Cameron has #PigGate. And judging by the reaction on social media, this is one that won't be easily shrugged off.

A new biography claims Britain's Prime Minister once put a "private part of his anatomy" into a dead pig's mouth.

UK intelligence agency MI5 is paying Muslim informants for controversial short-term spying missions targeting homegrown Islamist extremists.

Cara Delevingne has become the second-richest supermodel in the world beating Kate Moss for the first time.

Belfast has not forgotten its troubled history but the city's future is looking brighter, finds David Mercer.

Wine bar fined $244,600 after an 18-year-old girl had to have her stomach removed after drinking a free liquid nitrogen cocktail.

In her first public appearance since July, the Duchess of Cambridge revealed a new fringe as she arrived at church yesterday with her husband Prince William.

The family of a Kiwi man who was stabbed to death are being offered support from a trust set up in the memory of a teenager who also died from knife wounds.

Corbyn's rise echoes that of another senior-citizen socialist who has come out of nowhere this year to rattle his party's centre-left establishment.

Jeremy Corbyn will shake up British politics and represents a reaction against the legacy of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, Labour leader Andrew Little says.

British farmers are bleating after a supermarket was accused of trying to pass off Kiwi lamb as Scottish.

Xenia Taliotis spends a day at one of the unhappiest places on Earth.

Lawyer who offended female barrister after saying her LinkedIn profile picture was "stunning" used social media to call his own daughter "hot".

There have been ripples of criticism in Britain over the Cameron Government's revelation that RAF drones have killed two British nationals in Syria.

Jeremy Corbyn is about to become the new Labour leader - and that should scares British voters, writes Mike Hosking.

Antony Britton's escape bid goes wrong after he tries to emulate Harry Houdini and wriggle out of a coffin six feet under.

A British developer has come up with an ingenious way of getting rid of annoying spam emails and getting revenge on the people sending them in one fell swoop.

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has snapped up an eight-bedroom 17th-century Grade II-listed home in north London.

If there's a positive to his stunning rise, it's that he's the absolute antithesis of the carefully groomed and packaged identikit candidate, writes Paul Thomas.

A British technology company has developed an iPhone that can go a week without recharging, running instead off a built-in hydrogen fuel cell.

World-renowned pianist found beaten to death in her home, and police have arrested husband on suspicion of murder.

The Holocaust-denying historian David Irving has sparked anger by organising $4,830 tours of concentration camps.

Sir Michael Bear visited Auckland today to raise interest in investing in £100 billion worth of regeneration projects.

A man was left with a parking ticket after he left his car on yellow lines for just six minutes because his 100-year-old mother-in-law needed the toilet.

The British spy whose body was found padlocked inside a bag in his flat had illegally hacked into secret data on former US President Bill Clinton.

With just 10 days to go until the Queen overtakes Queen Victoria as Britain's longest-serving monarch, the comparisons between their reigns will be plentiful.

Crusading chef wants a sugar tax to curb obesity and diabetes.