Fashion house Hardy Amies is to abandon its heritage as the provider of pink silk gowns to the monarch and focus on a different clientele.

With a new film about the Beatles about to open here, Graham Reid goes to Liverpool where their remarkable story began.

The British chef's healthy school dinners have produced a marked improvement in national curriculum test results, research has found.

A masked gang armed with machine guns and pistols have staged a spectacular robbery at a Swiss casino.

The NZ author's story Last Season's Man, beat more than 1150 entries from published authors around the world.

Former immigration boss Mary Anne Thompson today escaped a jail sentence for fraudulently using her CV to secure senior public service jobs.

The 2010 prize for the best baguette de tradition, or traditional baguette, in Paris has been won by a man born in Senegal.

Flight of the Conchords seem to be doing okay when it comes to "business time" (that's not a euphemism).

Under French tradition, Dominique de Villepin's political hopes should be 'dead in the water'.

Production of cars has restarted at Saab's Trolhättan plant in Sweden after an interruption of seven weeks while the brand was sold to its new owner Spyker Cars.

Two years after escaping her underground prison, she lives in a brightly painted house in a tiny hamlet referred to as "Village X".

Fresh evidence has emerged that British military intelligence ran a secret operation in Iraq which authorised degrading and unlawful treatment of prisoners.

A US general has sparked fury in the Netherlands by suggesting gay Dutch troops were partly to blame for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

Scott Kara reviews new album There Is Love In You from Four Tet

Some of NZ's first national standards-based student reports have been issued by a Hamilton school amid concerns from its principal.

An Australian euthanasia advocate is meeting plenty of vocal opposition as he tours Ireland.