Wine bar fined $244,600 after an 18-year-old girl had to have her stomach removed after drinking a free liquid nitrogen cocktail.

A narcissistic blowhard leads the Republican presidential race. Australia goes through PMs like a banana republic on fast-forward. What's going on?

Gayle Newland disguised her appearance and voice to dupe her friend into having sex.

In her first public appearance since July, the Duchess of Cambridge revealed a new fringe as she arrived at church yesterday with her husband Prince William.

The family of a Kiwi man who was stabbed to death are being offered support from a trust set up in the memory of a teenager who also died from knife wounds.

Corbyn's rise echoes that of another senior-citizen socialist who has come out of nowhere this year to rattle his party's centre-left establishment.

Jeremy Corbyn will shake up British politics and represents a reaction against the legacy of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, Labour leader Andrew Little says.

British farmers are bleating after a supermarket was accused of trying to pass off Kiwi lamb as Scottish.

Xenia Taliotis spends a day at one of the unhappiest places on Earth.

Jeremy Corbyn is about to become the new Labour leader - and that should scares British voters, writes Mike Hosking.

Woman who claims she was assaulted by female friend pretending to be a man tells court they sunbathed together while she was blindfolded.

Rugby fans heading over to London for the 2015 Rugby World Cup, due to kick off in just over nine days, can expect to arrive in a city full of colour and brimming with tournament excitement.

Antony Britton's escape bid goes wrong after he tries to emulate Harry Houdini and wriggle out of a coffin six feet under.

A British developer has come up with an ingenious way of getting rid of annoying spam emails and getting revenge on the people sending them in one fell swoop.

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has snapped up an eight-bedroom 17th-century Grade II-listed home in north London.

If there's a positive to his stunning rise, it's that he's the absolute antithesis of the carefully groomed and packaged identikit candidate, writes Paul Thomas.

A British technology company has developed an iPhone that can go a week without recharging, running instead off a built-in hydrogen fuel cell.

World-renowned pianist found beaten to death in her home, and police have arrested husband on suspicion of murder.

A man was left with a parking ticket after he left his car on yellow lines for just six minutes because his 100-year-old mother-in-law needed the toilet.

The British spy whose body was found padlocked inside a bag in his flat had illegally hacked into secret data on former US President Bill Clinton.

With just 10 days to go until the Queen overtakes Queen Victoria as Britain's longest-serving monarch, the comparisons between their reigns will be plentiful.

Crusading chef wants a sugar tax to curb obesity and diabetes.

A London hospital failed to chase up a bill of £145,000 it should have charged a Nigerian woman who had quintuplets after travelling to Britain.

Bryan Gould looks at the emergence of Jeremy Corbyn as the unexpected front-runner in the contest for the leadership of the UK Labour Party.

Edinburgh's epic Festival Fringe brings out the best in this beautiful ancient city, discovers Stephen Jewell.

The home of the Beatles and one of the world's most famous football teams has a rich and interesting history, discovers Holly Ryan.

Kiwis used to find landing a dream job in London relatively easy. Now securing any work is proving a challenge.

The Queen will soon make history when she becomes the longest reigning British monarch.

Selfie queen Karen Danczuk has revealed she is bisexual after claims a former partner had threatened to expose her.

Living up to the public image of the late Princess, let alone William's near veneration of his mother, has proved a significant strain at times for Kate Middleton.