Prosecutors are weighing whether to press charges over a royal hoax call that preceded a nurse's apparent suicide, police said.

Prosecutors are weighing whether to press charges over a royal hoax call that preceded a nurse's apparent suicide.

Here are some of the world's key doomsday destinations and other places marked by fear and fascination.

A British Santa has been suspended from his job after he allegedly told children about the US school massacre and that he was not really Father Christmas.

The Spencer Family have lived in the same house for 500 years; I've been living in mine for 15, yet they don't seem to have accumulated nearly so much clutter, writes Jill Worrall.

British reviewers were scathing about the big-budget stage show built around the songs of 1990s "Girl Power" pop group the Spice Girls.

Singer Florence Welch halted a gig in Scotland over the weekend to break up a fight between fans.

A British court has reduced a fraudster's jail sentence by one week, to give her a better chance of starting a new life in New Zealand.

Spice Girl Mel B has confessed to having had violent punch-ups with her bandmate Mel C.

Kiwi expats are apologising to a London pub after drunken All Blacks fans went on an ugly rampage following last weekend's rugby loss to England.

I was interested to read the story of British soldier Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar, who is a member of the Scots Guard F company.

A 7-year-old cancer sufferer has been placed in protective care after he was tracked down with his New Zealand mother, who went on the run with him.

For years, the four-storey brick terrace house where Charles Dickens lived with his young family was a dusty and slightly neglected museum. Now it's gone from Bleak House to Great Expectations.

Many women miscarry without a safety net of support, writes Meredith Nash. But why is it taboo to talk about foetal loss in public?

In London, Pattrick Smellie meets a group of Kiwi businesswomen who reckon they're in the ideal place to take on the world.

Everyone worries that the All Blacks will have their minds on summer back home instead of the test against England this Sunday.

Daniel Carter's first public appearance since his fatherhood tweet delivered a battle between the rugby scribes and the fluffy social media types.