Floods, hurricanes, droughts - will climate change mean more wild weather ahead? That's a risk the insurance industry is taking very seriously, reports Peter Huck.

New Zealand musicians have secured a special place on the programme for the City of London Festival.

Comedian Jon Gnarr's irreverent campaign to be mayor of Reykjavik is now making a respectable political difference.

'Epidemic' of cheap synthetic opiate use sees Russian drug addicts slowly rot from the inside.

Designer Cedric Charlier, is steadily reinvigorating the famous French label Cacharel which is now available here.

Jennifer Aniston and her new man, Justin Theroux, snapped packing on PDA by famed photographer Terry Richardson.

The proliferation of cheap clothing has led us to shop excessively. We should be buying more carefully, argues an environmental journalist.

Prince Harry has been getting together with Pippa Middleton - but sources are split on whether it is a romance or just friendship.

The gathering that greets the summer solstice at Stonehenge each year has become very different from its earliest incarnation.

So many books, so little time. Selecting books for Fiction Addiction is a delicious but sometimes difficult task, so this month we sought help by asking you what makes a good book club read.

Photos of the latest fashions to hit the runway at the menswear shows in Milan.

Italians are facing the indigestible news that Italy's most popular shop-bought example is likely to have started life in Lancashire.

The concert that was supposed to begin the comeback tour for Amy Winehouse turned into a fiasco at the weekend when the troubled singer came on stage in Belgrade apparently too drunk to perform.

Once-solid financial securities are losing their safe status.

Sarah Quigley - or should I say Dr Sarah Quigley, for she has a doctorate in English literature from Oxford, no less - has long been recognised as one of New Zealand's finest writers.

Isaac Hindin Miller reports from Europe's style capital on the latest in summer menswear fashions.

Holiday goes against conditions of Henderson's bankruptcy, which forbid him from leaving the country without official permission.

New Zealand athletes are in full Olympic Games qualifying mode for London in 13 months' time. How are they shaping up and where do our best hopes of success lie?

It's a pop-up world of panama hats and outdoor reading (when it's sunny), scarves and cups of coffee (when it's not), and an erudite audience.