'If I was to make an appeal I would say he would be better dead,' said the mother of armed fugitive Raoul Moat, wanted for two killings in the UK.

Opening Auckland's film festival tonight, I Am Love marks Tilda Swinton's return to arthouse movies after excursions in Hollywood. She talks to HELEN BARLOW

Five years after the terror attacks on London's public transport system, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reflects on what's been learned.

Claims that more than one hundred Iraqi civilians were tortured and abused by British soldiers must be fully investigated, Britain's High Court was told yesterday.

Gaelic is still widely spoken on the island of Lewis, the northernmost, largest and lowest-lying of the Outer Hebrides.

Like everything in Katie Price's life, her wedding blessing was full of drama and photographers on Saturday. She married cage-fighter Alex Reid in Las Vegas in February but the couple wanted a lavish ceremony at home for friends and family.

Chefs from London to Loch Voll are growing their own produce, from bumper crops of carrots to unusual herbs they find difficult to source.

Germany saw off Argentina with a 4-0 goal fest in South Africa this morning.

Anamarie Ewins wants to deliver another sporting milestone for New Zealand and become the first woman to row solo across the Tasman.

Jamie Oliver has hit back at a loss of UK Government support for his highly publicised campaign to get schoolchildren eating healthy food.

The leggy Australian is drawing on her three-decade career as a supermodel to relaunch her television career.

The celebrity chef's highly publicised campaign to get British schoolchildren eating healthy food has lost its government backing.

Auckland-born Emilia Wickstead dresses the British Prime Minister's wife but her feet are firmly on the ground, writes Zoe Walker.

Vintage TV, which is due to begin broadcasting in September, is aimed at the over-fifties.

A range of factors lie behind actress Gwyneth Paltrow's bone-wasting condition osteopenia.

British pop star Cheryl Cole is set to make an appearance in long-running comic The Beano.