There is a strange paradox going on with modern women. They buy advice and self-help books as if they are going out of fashion, and yet they bridle when anyone offers them any actual, real-world, on-the-spot advice.

Madonna, who's been divorced twice, is to appear as a judge on a US reality TV show about warring couples.

At Rio's Carnival, collecting as many pecking partners as possible at one of the 650 massive street parties is truly a competitive sport.

"My best mate wasn't allowed boys around to her place in our teens..."

Two wealthy couples have split - one after the wife ran off with a hired hand.

A breakfast radio host was suspended after airing an explicit jingle about TVNZ star Alison Mau.

Three pairs of hip and funky couples tell Viva what keeps their love alive.

Scott Kara orders a new book about dangerous things you should let your kids do but wonders whether the suggestions should be followed to the letter.

Couples are rushing back to wedding chapels after putting off getting married during the recession.

If you think it takes nerve to ask a girl to marry you, try doing it before a national television audience.

Creative ways to showcase your love this Valentine's Day.

Auckland's Langham hotel has the answer to Valentine's Day gift-giving with a range of luxury packages sure to woo.

The Independent's Liz Hoggard wonders, in the lead-up to Valentine's Day, why men are so reluctant to write love letters.

Dita De Boni delves into some of the more extreme mummy-chat forums on US parenting sites.

TVNZ presenter Ali Mau, who separated from One News frontman Simon Dallow last year, is understood to be in a new relationship - with a woman.

Intrigued by an immodest know-it-all named Bongo, Shelley Bridgeman endeavours first to catch him out, then to work him out.

Kiwi film stars Jane Campion and Kerry Fox talk about their unusual meeting during auditions for the film An Angel at My Table.

Dita De Boni is lost for words over her son's latest kindy creation.

Not even a chance meeting with some of his musical heroes can live up to Scott Kara's enthusiasm for being a dad.

British model and tabloid darling Katie Price has married her cage-fighter boyfriend Alex Reid in Las Vegas.

The number of Kiwis using internet dating sites spiked in January, a poll has found.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie put on a show of unity at the Directors Guild of America Awards (DGAs) on Saturday night.

Even before the earthquake struck, Haiti had the highest rate of maternal and infant death, as well as the deaths of children under the age of five, of any country in the Western Hemisphere.

An emotional memorial service has been held in the US for a NZ woman's husband and daughters killed in the Haitian earthquake.