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Milan: City of style
The Milanese live up to their effortlessly elegant reputation, writes Zoe Walker.
Artist's special effects creation wins at World Bodypainting Champs
A Kiwi designer has taken out a top spot at the World Bodypainting Championships in Austria.
Russian betting firm wants octopus Paul
A Russian betting firm wants to buy psychic World Cup octopus Paul as a bookmaker and pay him a salary of $NZ7000 a month, according to local media.
Poker hopefuls head south
Fifteen lucky poker players are headed from Auckland to Queenstown this week for a chance to strike it rich.
US equities advance on better earnings news
Stocks in the US advanced as better-than-anticipated earnings outweighed a decline in homebuilder confidence.
Divers find 200-year-old champagne
Divers have found what is thought to be the world's oldest drinkable champagne in a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea.
Forget the LHC - physicists plan new atom smasher
Forget the Large Hadron Collider, Cern's scientists have their hearts set on a new, $9.48 billion, 31km Linear Collider.
Solid US earnings fails to ease concerns
Solid earnings data from corporate America has done little to ease investors' concerns that growth in the world economy is slowing.
Gays defy traditionalists with Warsaw march
To anyone who pictures Warsaw as a cold, grey, conservative city, yesterday offered an antidote.
Signs of US weakness hits world markets overnight
Stocks in Europe and the US fell after worse-than-expected US economic data bolstered concern about growth.
Discos out, proms in for UK primary school students
Limo rental companies and dressmakers are starting to cash in as 'proms' to celebrate the end of primary school take off across Britain.
Heatwave, and vodka, leads to 200 drownings in a week
A prolonged heatwave across Russia combined with a prodigious consumption of vodka has led to dozens of drownings every day.
NZ named third-best place to die
NZ is one of the best places to shuffle off the mortal coil, according to a new index.
Pastry chef who takes the biscuit
Pierre Herme is to macarons what Heston Blumenthal was to porridge and ice-cream.
Chocolatier raises $7.8m from tasty bond
Retailer offers a three-year bond where the return is paid in deliveries of chocolate over the period.
Stella McCartney to design Great Britain's 2012 Olympic uniforms
The designer will create the kit for the British Olympic team, working in conjunction with the sportswear label Adidas.
The art of beaute
Janetta Mackay test drives a host of beauty products, from Paris with love.
Male order from Paris
Zambesi menswear designer Dayne Johnston takes us inside the fast-paced world of working the Paris fashion collections.
Take two in Paris
A tourist and a resident give their views on the best bits of the City of Love.