Shares across Europe rose yesterday amid hopes that most of the continent's 91 top banks will pass EU-mandated 'stress tests'.

The Spanish Foreign Minister yesterday told his country's parliament that Cuba would soon release "all" political prisoners.

Gorillaz will play a New Zealand show off the back of an Australian tour later this year.

Injured Ali Williams could look to Europe for a short-term contract in a bid to get match-hardened before the World Cup.

Haute couture may be struggling in these tough economic times, but there is still a place for it on the catwalks of Paris.

The Milanese live up to their effortlessly elegant reputation, writes Zoe Walker.

Fifteen lucky poker players are headed from Auckland to Queenstown this week for a chance to strike it rich.

Stocks in the US advanced as better-than-anticipated earnings outweighed a decline in homebuilder confidence.

Divers have found what is thought to be the world's oldest drinkable champagne in a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea.

Forget the Large Hadron Collider, Cern's scientists have their hearts set on a new, $9.48 billion, 31km Linear Collider.

Solid earnings data from corporate America has done little to ease investors' concerns that growth in the world economy is slowing.

To anyone who pictures Warsaw as a cold, grey, conservative city, yesterday offered an antidote.