A prankster appears to have had some fun at the expense of the Minister of Police.

It wasn't the first complaint about airline food, but it was definitely one of the most emphatic.

As firefighters and ordinary residents toil at the black-red coalface of NSW's bushfire crisis, their story of heroism and anguish is being told to the world.

A little piece of Paris and a part of media history steps into a new era today when the International Herald Tribune dies and is reborn as the International New York Times.

More than a million young people in Britain are subjected to extreme online bullying every day, according to the biggest survey of internet abuse.

New Zealand tech companies are taking an "inefficient spear-fishing approach" to marketing, says a new study.

For almost three years the National Security Agency has been tapping the data it collects to map out some Americans' social connections.

Counties Manukau police are tweeting from the beat, giving an insight into an average Saturday night on South Auckland streets.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani scooped Barack Obama with a tweet revealing a break in the 34-year silence between leaders of the two nations.

Whether it’s misguided Facebook marketing campaigns or expletive-ridden Twitter tirades, social media can turn an embarrassing lapse of reason into a viral global phenomenon in seconds.

Social media is acknowledged to be powerful, but - like learning Mandarin - many managers and businesses owners put the task of learning how to use it correctly on a very long to-do-list.

When Russell Coutts promised to deliver an America's Cup regatta that would appeal to the "Facebook generation" rather than the "Flintstones generation".

Home-grown lingerie company Rose & Thorne is rapidly gaining a cult Facebook following and rave reviews.

Parental oversharing has become commonplace thanks to social media. Emma Rowley meets the controversial blogger telling proud mums and dads to put a lid on it.

A former Air New Zealand flight attendant who was forced to hand over her bank records and Facebook page for an employment investigation has won her case.

The country's most influential and prolific tweeters have been revealed in a survey by Twitter New Zealand.

If you're low on cash and feeling peckish would you eat a stranger's leftover food, at the same time reducing waste?

Labour's leadership candidates have already had to start reining in over-enthusiastic supporters in a bid to stop the contest becoming dirty.

A teenager who died at his school hostel after a severe asthma attack had celebrated his 17th birthday a week earlier.