Dating apps have been in the news for all the wrong reasons this year, but a new generation of dating app emphasises safety.

A spurned husband in England cut up $10,000 of his wife's clothes before packing them neatly back in the wardrobe.

If we're to be defined for all eternity by the application we searched for most, 2014 was the year of Tinder.

Deborah Hill Cone scavenged from the filter of life and presents us with 30 things she learned in 2014.

Some of Shortland Street's hottest stars have posed for the show's sauciest photo shoot.

Any new singleton, wary of dipping their toe into the murky water of online dating, must surely be even more cautious after two news stories this week highlighting the perils of such behaviour.

Superstar Sir Elton John and David Furnish are to marry Christmas week in a "small and intimate" ceremony, nine years after exchanging vows for their civil partnership.

Why do we feel so down when we get a whiff of rejection? We know in our hearts that we can't like everyone who likes us - just as everyone we happen to like can't like us.

It is after 10 years together that relationships are at their rockiest, a study claims. But hit 35 and you're in for extremely plain sailing.

Is rekindled love a delicate and tender flower - or a releasing of a genie from a bottle with a warning on the label?

If you must smooch in public, here are five rules to follow, says Hannah Betts.

Regrets? The over-50s have had a few ... and one of the most common is marrying the wrong person.

I jumped the gun and got married in early November. It was a simple affair, and while we didn't set out with this specific goal in mind, the total wedding cost came in at just under $1000.

We take a look at the other halves of the world's most famous Angels.

Matt Heath writes: My parents loved manners and as a result I get angry when friends don't place their cutlery with the handles at 5 o'clock pointing toward 11 o'clock.

A bad marriage really could lead to a broken heart, new research looking at how marriage quality affects cardiovascular health suggests.

Forget the man drought - New Zealand is suffering a friend famine.

The sexual revolution has gone too far, according to a founding figure of the Swinging Sixties who says the Pill means sex is no longer about love for young girls.

A British-born Australian woman who had a child using in-vitro fertilisation fell in love with the man who was her anonymous sperm donor.

The prediction of recreational-only sex by 2050 shows up the impossible choices young women have to make.

Chinese programmer was so sick of being single that he bought 99 iPhone 6s to propose to his girlfriend. It didn't end well.

When Jamie and Louis, both transsexual, decided to marry, they also chose to allow TV cameras to record the often rocky run-up to the big day. They tell Kate Hilpern why they did it.

It is one of New York's most successful law firms, a company that has won US$3 billion ($3.85 billion) in payouts for sick Ground Zero workers, diet pill users and asbestos cancer sufferers.

Where one mystery's been solved, another has surfaced. A mystery bride has been found - but she has little idea how her wedding photos came to be on a USB stick.

Sex could become purely recreational by 2050 with large numbers of babies in the Western world born through IVF, the professor who invented the contraceptive pill says.