The 2010 prize for the best baguette de tradition, or traditional baguette, in Paris has been won by a man born in Senegal.

Under French tradition, Dominique de Villepin's political hopes should be 'dead in the water'.

Flight of the Conchords seem to be doing okay when it comes to "business time" (that's not a euphemism).

Production of cars has restarted at Saab's Trolhättan plant in Sweden after an interruption of seven weeks while the brand was sold to its new owner Spyker Cars.

Sandra Bullock is reportedly on the hunt for a high-end divorce lawyer.

Fresh evidence has emerged that British military intelligence ran a secret operation in Iraq which authorised degrading and unlawful treatment of prisoners.

A US general has sparked fury in the Netherlands by suggesting gay Dutch troops were partly to blame for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

Scott Kara reviews new album There Is Love In You from Four Tet

Some of NZ's first national standards-based student reports have been issued by a Hamilton school amid concerns from its principal.

An Australian euthanasia advocate is meeting plenty of vocal opposition as he tours Ireland.

Free-thinking and gifted intellectuals, or a bunch of dissolute subversives "who lived in squares but loved in triangles"?

A drug thought to be used by Kiwis as a substitute for ecstasy could be banned in Britain after being linked to two deaths.

Obese patients have been paid up to $911 to lose weight in a UK trial to test if financial incentives can be used to change unhealthy behaviour.