International leaders are failing in their fight against global warming, one of the United Nations' top climate officials has said.

Prince Harry has spent the night in a giant freezer to simulate the conditions he will face when he treks to the South Pole in November.

Working as a volunteer London Ambassador gave Joanna Biddolph insights into what concerns tourists most when visiting London.

The Conservative Deputy Speaker in Britain's lower house of parliament has quit after the public prosecutor announced that he will be charged with rape and sexual assault.

One of Britain's top soap stars, Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell, has been cleared of 12 charges of child sex abuse, including five counts of rape.

Prime Minister David Cameron has defended Britain's achievements after a Russian official reportedly dismissed it as a small island with no international influence.

Prime Minister John Key spoke to British Prime Minister David Cameron last night about the chemical attack on civilians in Syria on August 21.

They're supposed to be talking about growth and money, but the threat of war in Syria is creeping into nearly every conversation as the leaders of the world's 20 top economies huddle in Russia this week.

Nearly 300,000 "attempts to access websites categorised as pornography" were made from computers within the British Parliament in the last year, official records show.

Broadcaster David Frost, best known for his interview with ex-US President Richard Nixon, died of a heart attack aboard the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship.

British PM David Cameron has lost a vote endorsing military action against Syria by 13 votes, a stunning defeat after his government was poised to join the US in strikes.

A public appeal for Britain to open its doors to an unlimited number of New Zealanders has been backed by those already in the country.

Billy Adams visits a pub that commemorates a genocide.

Fantasy nerds: if you've ever fancied yourself on the throne at Kings Landing, battling for the right to the Seven Kingdoms, here's your chance.

If the annual cheese roll in England or wife carrying competition in Finland is too boring for you, here are five very strange ones that might be worth visiting, even if it's just to tweet a pic from.

The murky mists of time have thrown up many bizarre tales of legendary Dartmoor, writes Paul Rush.

A jam-maker who found herself locked inside a British church was eventually rescued - after tweeting for help.

The son of a Kiwi mother is recovering from the radiotherapy which he finally underwent despite her fears, with no signs of cancer on his last scan.

In Antwerp, Liz Light explores the icon's world.

A hike on the quieter south side of the legendary loch throws up natural revelations but nothing monstrous.

A former English beauty queen has travelled from her New Zealand home to the scene of a crowning glory that helped launch her glamour career 40 years ago.

A worldwide search for the beauty queen in a 1973 photo discovered in a British mall ended in New Zealand.