Although this year's harvest is bountiful and prices are buoyant, a long-term threat hangs over the future of the UK's mistletoe.

You may know him as the man mentioned once in 250,000 diplomatic cables sent between NZ and the US, but I know him as "daddy".

Shane Warne is reported to be having an affair with British model Liz Hurley, who says she's separated from her husband.

The other day I felt like I was a dirty and sinister old man - even though I'm not and the incident was entirely innocent.

Before you whip out that credit card, ask yourself if the gift you're about to buy for someone is expressing your true feelings - or will it just insult them?

Where would the world of childbirth be without those uninhibited European women who feature so prominently in birthing videos?

Mohamed Taranissi, the so-called 'bad boy of the fertility world' is still Britain's most successful IVF specialist.

With the 2010 Bad Sex Awards announced last week by the Literary Review, Arifa Akbar looks at the criteria for consideration and the judging process.

It's not often I let my husband fly solo, but when it came to the garage sale, it was the only way to go.

An Otago University study has challenged the idea that depression and anti-social behaviour are primarily influenced by genes.

Anjali Stewart and Rachel Easting are childhood friends and the designers behind Twenty-seven Names.

The real life story that inspired the film, The King's Speech, is one of the most extraordinary involving the British royal family in recent years.

The little-known tale of an Australian 'quack' who helped save the British throne from embarrassment is soon to be released.

Good-looking couples are more likely to have daughters than plainer parents, according to a study.

The first results from a study of 7000 Auckland and Waikato babies shows that 11 per cent of women smoke throughout their pregnancies.

About 36pc of first-time mothers, and 13pc of mothers who already had older children, were not aware of the Working For Families tax credits.

Two studies of human development, one launched in the 1970s and the other from earlier this year, reveal how different society is today.

The other night at Starship Hospital a total stranger didn't quite give me the shirt off his back - but it was close.

Striving for victory is good, but sometimes cooperating is better.

A $5 million a year study has found that 40 per cent of the babies born in Auckland and the Waikato in the past year were "accidents".

Royal watchers, romantics and well-wishers finally have a date: the royal wedding will take place on April 29 next year.

One mundane routine that this mother-of-two will never quite take to is restricting her diet in order to lose kilos of stored baby fat.

A woman described having a 'feeling in my guts' on the morning she found her sister brutally murdered.

The best-selling author of The Tipping Point has enraged social network users by dismissing their impact on real issues. It is, Tim Adams writes, just the latest salvo in an argument set to run and run.