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Funny man Vince Vaughn enters fatherhood
The Wedding Crashers actor's wife Kyla Weber gave birth to a baby girl in Chicago on Saturday and the couple have decided to name the 7lbs tot Locklyn Kyla Vaughn.

Shania Twain gets engaged
The Still The One singer and Frederic Thiebaud are set to marry after the Swiss-born Nestle business executive popped the question two months ago in his native country.

<i>Dita De Boni:</i> No Minister
It is with huge regret and disgust that once more, New Zealanders wake up to find 'caregivers' accused on brutally assaulting their children.

Liz Hurley dumps Shane Warne - reports
Elizabeth Hurley has reportedly dumped Shane Warne just a week after their relationship was made public.

Angry Liz Hurley dumps 'horny' Warnie over texts
Shane Warne reportedly sent more than 100 racy texts to a married Australian businesswoman - as he wooed Elizabeth Hurley.

Rotorua lodge among world's best honeymoon spots
Australian website hotelscombined.com has named Lake Okareka Lodge as one of the world's top honeymoon getaways.

Liz Hurley to divorce husband Arun Nayar
Elizabeth Hurley is to get a quickie divorce from her husband Arun Nayar.

Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds to divorce
Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson have separated, ending their two-year marriage, the couple announced in a joint statement today.

WikiLeaks boss has alter-ego for dating
The man dedicated to revealing Government secrets has had some of his own secrets made public. An online dating account reportedly belonging to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been unearthed,

Shane Warne and Liz Hurley are in love
So says the excited UK press, with fresh tabloid reports stating the unlikely pair's relationship is more than a fling.

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

McMuffin Poopencakes
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".

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

Strangers in the playground
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.

The fertility specialist who does things his own way
Mohamed Taranissi, the so-called 'bad boy of the fertility world' is still Britain's most successful IVF specialist.

How good was it for you?
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.

My three girls
It's a girl. Oh well, there goes my grand plan of moulding another Benji Marshall or Dan Carter.

<i>Tapu Misa:</i> Unpaid work invisible and undervalued
Stay-at-home mums are an endangered species these days. I was one once and even then it was hard work explaining why.

<i>Wendyl Nissen</i>: One woman's trash...
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.

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

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

She was not amused
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.

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

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

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

New mums miss out on tax credits - study
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.