Australia is following a scheme introduced in NZ to decide which wildlife should be allowed to die off

Storms and floods continue to cause disruption throughout the UK.

William Hageman revisits a favourite haunt and is relieved to find its character has endured a recent spruce-up.

The all-clear has reportedly been given to a young boy whose New Zealand-born mother fought against life-saving cancer treatment for him in Britain.

Heavy rainfall may have played a part in the ceiling collapse at London's Apollo Theatre that injured 79 people.

A Santa impersonator has quit one of Britain's busiest grottos after he was told off for being brusque with the children whose parents had paid £5 (NZD$9.80) a time for them to meet him.

A young girl in the UK is set to be reunited with her favourite teddy bear following a remarkable social media appeal launched by the woman who found it.

Save the date: The British government has announced that the country's first same-sex weddings can be held on March 29.

In a UK first, shoppers in South Yorkshire are being offered food at up to 70 per cent of normal prices - but they have to prove they're on benefits to get the bargains.

'I'm a soldier..I couldn't do anything else.' A man accused of killing a British soldier in a frenzied knife attack in London has defended his actions.

Sophie Christie reports on London's best rooftop bars.

Alex Robertson sniffs out some bargains in what can be an expensive city to visit.

Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson has admitted in a UK court that she's used cocaine, but accused her ex-husband of spreading lies about her being a habitual user and addict.

The editor of the Guardian has appeared before British MPs, saying his paper has published just 1 per cent of material it got from NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

Shopping on Oxford Street and taking in a West End show are musts in London, but if you have a little longer, here are five markets worth visiting.

Google says it has developed new technology to block child porn from its search results, but campaigners say it'll affect a fraction of the 1.2 trillion Google searches each year.

Doris Lessing, the Nobel prize-winning, free-thinking, world-traveling and often-polarising author has died at the age of 94.

Britain's teeming capital is also a city of cultural riches, historic buildings and gorgeous parks, many of which can be experienced for free.

The British government has issued an unusually stark warning about a cyberscam that locks users out of their computers unless they pay a ransom, saying that tens of millions of people may soon be targeted.

Al-Qaeda and other terror groups are having a field day with the leaks from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, UK spy chiefs told lawmakers in a strong condemnation of the American's espionage revelations.

A UK terror suspect is on the run in Britain after he escaped surveillance by putting on women's clothes at a London mosque.

The bodies of an elderly couple who mysteriously disappeared 15 years ago were unearthed in their own backyard last month.

England's second city has once again beaten London as a must-see destination, according to US travel writers.