Grasse, the pretty Provencal town nestled between the Mediterranean and the mountains, is truly the Mecca of the fragrance world.

Tuition fees at New Zealand universities are among the highest in the world, according to a new report. New Zealand had the seventh-most expensive tuition fees for universities, with entrants paying more than $3600 a year.

This is not a Rugby World Cup mug.

An appeal for $95,913 to restore Roald Dahl's garden shed has proved a plot twist too fantastical for the writer's fans.

Bernard Hickey with ten questions about the European debt mess and what it might mean for New Zealand.

Scenes from Northern Island's Donegal County.

An estimate of 160 billion barrels has companies scrambling to drill in pristine ecosystem, writes Michael McCarthy.

Equities sank after the most powerful central bank chief in the world came out guns blazing but fired blanks ahead of a speech by US President Barack Obama.

Those who think that the Euro will disintegrate are not fully aware of the dynamics of the European Union, the EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said in Auckland today.

The largest of Spain's Balearic islands is still a green place in the autumn, writes Andreas Heimann.

US shares rebounded overnight, as investors applauded signs on both sides of the Atlantic that government fiscal problems are getting solved.

Advice on tackling the epic 7865km Trans-Siberian route... and learning a little Mongolian.

Scaling the Matterhorn is something best done while you're young, says Alpine guide Rudi Steindl.

Some 5000 UK food outlets will offer calorie-count menus by the end of the year.

The remarkably well-preserved underground site is the first gladiator school ever found outside Italy.

Gran Canaria's Seaside Hotel Palm Beach was built in the 1970s and positively embraces its roots.