The New Zealand dollar popped above 50p overnight on concern the UK may vote to leave the European Union in the "Brexit" referendum next week.

It's no news that there are worries about immigration and multi-culturalism in Europe.

COMMENT: Nobody expected the conservative Swiss to approve the idea of a hefty monthly payout to everyone in the country without exception.

Switzerland is considering a plan to pay its people for doing nothing.

The doomed EgyptAir plane that plunged into the Mediterranean last month with the loss of 66 lives was forced three times to turn around after taking off.

The world needs to act together on the refugee crisis gripping Europe, European Council president Donald Tusk said yesterday.

Thousands of Kiwis are packing their sunhats and sun cream, preparing for a winter getaway.

We entered the clearing and stopped, breathing hard after snowshoeing through deep powder.

They are the bucket-list destinations tourists are loving to death. Some of these sites have been shut down, while for others the risk lingers.

Britain could sink into a year-long recession if it votes to leave the European Union, finance minister George Osborne warned.

Gliding along the river with a cocktail in hand, as stars twinkle above me, I'm certain there is no better way to travel.

Diplomats tell us what Kiwis need to know about their homelands.

This sinister botanical wonderland is home to 100 of the world's most lethal plants...

It is not often that international solutions work so well but when it happens, it deserves a tentative cheer.

Well, for one, it's pretty magical to get to experience a white Christmas - sure, it'll be extremely cold, but Europe does Christmas exceptionally well.

Half of Western European men are descended from one Bronze Age "king" who sired a dynasty of nobles which spread throughout Europe, a study has shown.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was asked to reminisce about her fondest moments with President Barack Obama during the seven years of his presidency.

Swiss police raided the Uefa yesterday about a contract disclosed in the Panama Papers signed by the head of the global football body Fifa.

COMMENT: The only way to seal a frontier is to kill people who try to cross it illegally. The Iron Curtain worked pretty well, for example.

Mention Arnold Schwarzenegger and almost no one will imagine glow-in-the-dark condoms.

To the Belgian beer drinker, the term "craft" beer is not the johnny-come-lately preserve of beardy hipsters quaffing the latest microbrew from jam jars.

Scenes of chaos awaited European Union staff due to start arriving on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios today to begin processing asylum seekers.

The investigation into last week's bombings in Belgium extended farther across Europe after Italian police arrested a new suspect.

Fausto Mottalini, 65, is out to tell the world that a human being can live with a few simple things: food, shelter and above all, uncontaminated nature.

A top European security official warned yesterday that the threat of Isis (Islamic State) attacks is greater than previous assessments.

The final resting place of England's greatest king is somewhere under the asphalt of the car park of a leisure centre in his capital, Winchester.

Survivors tell of chaos and confusion after attacks on the 'Washington of Europe'.

Last week counterterrorism officials and experts gathered in Brussels for a conference on a threat quietly gathering in the city around them.

Erme says the locals' united stand has gone some way to alleviate the climate of fear that once existed, and the violence once demonstrated so publicly by the mob.