Two former British foreign secretaries offered to use their positions on behalf of a fictitious Chinese company in return for payment of NZ $10k a day.

A director of an international human rights organisation has admitted he was involved in preventing a black French man from entering a Paris underground train amid racist chanting by Chelsea football fans.

Rolf Harris has been stripped of his two Australian honours, after being jailed for indecent assault in the UK

A drove of kunekune pigs is causing a big stink in the UK.

Och, witch room? Clash of the tartans and a wee dram later, Kevin Pilley is still deciding.

Darktrace is a UK cybersecurity company that counts Cambridge machine learning specialists and cyberintelligence experts from GCHQ and MI5.

It's 1940, Britain is at war and code-breaker Alan Turing is hard at work. Danica Kirka time travels at Bletchley Park.

A prominent, far-right activist has been arrested following a police investigation into anti-Semitic tweets sent to a Member of Parliament.

Alan Barnes, the UK pensioner who inspired an outpouring of public generosity after he was attacked, says he wants buy house close to woman who set up well wish fund.

Frontline Springboks could enjoy up to five weeks rest from Super Rugby this year, according to Patrick Lambie, the Sharks pivot who ended 2014 in possession of the Bok No 10 jersey.

Finally, the Springboks are top priority in a World Cup year.

Manchester United players allegedly filmed a woman as she performed a sex act on a teammate in a nightclub toilet cubicle.

Diplomats have warned Europe could descend into war if the West does not stand up to Russia over the Ukraine conflict.

A businessman is preparing to have a hysterectomy after doctors discovered he was born with a womb.

When the British Foreign Secretary told us we were "family" this week, he meant we're the bogan cousins everyone's loathe to invite to weddings, writes Kerre McIvor.

New Zealand lamb wool prices jumped to their highest level in almost four years this week.

A New Zealand judge has been picked from 150 candidates, after a "robust" vetting process, to lead a mammoth inquiry into historic child sex abuse allegations in Britain.

The widow of poisoned spy Alexander Litvinenko has told the public inquiry into his death that her husband accused Russian president Vladimir Putin of being a paedophile.

Brian Blessed has withdrawn from a production of Shakepeare's King Lear, a week after collapsing on stage.

Thousands of social media users have shown their support for a breast cancer sufferer after a stranger told her she was a “sick freak”.

British MPs have reopened the debate over UK visa rules, arguing they are unfairly favouring Europeans at the expense of those from NZ and Australia.

A young Briton is in a Christchurch spinal unit after breaking his back in a Queenstown tree climbing fall.

Peter de Graaf follows in the steps of Everest's conqueror, visiting Sir Edmund Hillary's local pub in Wales.

When the Gawker website speculated media mogul Rupert Murdoch tweets while drunk, Murdoch hit back - with a tweet.

British tourist who left more than 52,000 pictures of child abuse on hard drive in a rental car while visiting NZ avoids jail.

Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has hit out at media coverage of allegations Prince Andrew had sex with a teenage girl.

A wildlife cruise on the Isle of Mull is heaven for bird lovers, writes Richard Tulloch.