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Fashion: Ungaro's creative director to step down

British fashion designer Giles Deacon, who took over as creative head of Emanuel Ungaro last year, is to leave the couture house, the French couture house has said.

Pregnancy study links low-fat yoghurt to asthma in children

Women who eat low-fat yoghurt while pregnant increase their chances of having children who develop asthma and hay fever, a study has found.

Euro dithering sends sell signal for world shares

Nigel Parsons & Dov Bing: Voting for a Palestinian state?

Ah, April in Paris

Although it can rain a lot during April in Paris, parts of Europe have experienced some very mild weather in recent years.

Heidi Klum's legs worth millions

German supermodel Heidi Klum's legs have been insured for US$2 million (NZ$2.4m).

Marseille: In a word - lovely

Marseille defies the old movie stereotypes to both delight and surprise.

<I>Matthew Bell:</I> Sperm bank rejects redheads

<I>The Independent</I>'s Matthew Bell, as a disinterested, only slightly sandy observer, asks what's wrong with being ginger anyway?

Euro bank move pushes world markets up

Laid-back Fijians at Rugby World Cup to have fun

NZ tuition fees among world highest

Tuition fees at New Zealand universities are among the highest in the world, according to a new report. New Zealand had the seventh-most expensive tuition fees for universities, with entrants paying more than $3600 a year.

Sideswipe: Sept 15: Hurray for the Ruby Wold Cop!

This is not a Rugby World Cup mug.

Pay to move your own shed, fans tell Roald Dahl's family

An appeal for $95,913 to restore Roald Dahl's garden shed has proved a plot twist too fantastical for the writer's fans.

Bernard Hickey: How did Europe get in this mess?

Bernard Hickey with ten questions about the European debt mess and what it might mean for New Zealand.

French play down blast at nuclear waste plant

Welsh World Cup team sharpen their mental edge for Samoa