The New Zealand-born Dutch girl who wants to sail solo around the world is now being allowed to go, after all.

While you nurse your New Year hangover, the World's Strongest Man will be busy lifting cars.

A new PM defied the odds as the Govt struggled to deal with the worst recession in decades, and Labour played catch up politics.

Here today, gone tomorrow. Joanna Hunkin looks at the international fascination with pop-up bars and their rise in New Zealand.

Club got the sacking of its manager wrong at every step.

Many nations fear rising water levels, but the Netherlands already has practical experience.

That's it then - another year of spouting, pronouncing and sticking the occasional spanner in the works.

High standards and lower costs have helped to gain contracts from international pharmaceutical firms.

What kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis?

Mary MacKillop is set to become Australia's first saint after Pope Benedict XVI approved her second miracle.

Prime Minister John Key remains hopeful of a deal at Copenhagen but thinks if progress is to be made ambitions may need to lower.

Dr Suresh Vatsyayann was asked to withdraw comments made in an email and apologise to the Waikato board and management, but refused.

Susan Boyle, Smashproof and body-painted cabin crews capture Kiwis’ imaginations.

A kidnap victim reveals in a new film how her captor shaved her head, forbade her to cry and brutally abused her during eight years in a cellar.

Israeli PM says warrant issued in Britain for the arrest of Israel's former foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, is "an absurdity".

Changes to one of London's best-known Underground routes have caused some pre-Christmas commuter confusion.