Free-thinking and gifted intellectuals, or a bunch of dissolute subversives "who lived in squares but loved in triangles"?

A drug thought to be used by Kiwis as a substitute for ecstasy could be banned in Britain after being linked to two deaths.

The source of this surprisingly affecting family drama was the book The Boys Are Back In Town, by English journalist Simon Carr, who worked as Jim Bolger's speechwriter in the early 1990s.

David Beckham's tendon injury has divided opinions in the British press about his international future.

Obese patients have been paid up to $911 to lose weight in a UK trial to test if financial incentives can be used to change unhealthy behaviour.

Stacy Gregg marvels at the 'genuine Englishness', reinvented charm and revived glam of Birmingham.

A group of six New Zealanders will this year attempt to jet-ski from London to Auckland, via Sydney.

British food companies are selling products which contain meat from thousands of miles away but labelling them "British" or "traditional".

Questions have been raised about the monitoring of the online activity of sex offenders, after a murder in Britain.

Pamela Wade finds many traces of Alice and her friends in the town that inspired one of the most enduring childhood tales of all time.

The NZ teacher crushed after crawling into an east Sussex wheelie bin following a night out earlier tried to share a taxi with two women he met at a pub, an inquest into his death hears.

Director Tim Burton and his partner, actress Helena Bonham Carter, team up again for a surreal version of Alice In Wonderland.

A couple finally win a two-year battle with the British government over their upmarket $1.7m Auckland home.

Not every child in the world is obsessed with hi-tech games consoles to the exclusion of more traditional toys.

Dunedin police say the girl in a CCTV photo from Dunedin's The Warehouse is not Britain's missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann.