Scaling the Matterhorn is something best done while you're young, says Alpine guide Rudi Steindl.

Executives in Zurich, Geneva and Sydney are the best paid in the world after taxes, according to a survey by Swiss bank UBS - but Auckland workers are not flourishing to the same extent.

Brooke Fraser hochster Neu-Einstieg in die Charts. That's right, the lovely Kiwi songstress "is the highest new entry in the German charts" and her third album, Flags, has sent the European world a-Twitter.

British anti-euthanasia campaigners accused Sir Terry Pratchett and the BBC of "cheerleading" for a change in legislation.

CERN's director general believes that if the Higgs boson exists, the Large Hadron Collider will prove it by the end of 2012.

Megan Singleton discovers beautiful cities in a whistlestop train journey.

Old name brought back for new model.

Jaguar will take the covers off a new sedan at the Geneva motor show next week.

Switzerland upheld its reputation for having one of the most liberal yet lethal firearms laws in Europe.

Australian soccer chiefs are optimistic the Wellington Phoenix's current economic crisis would be solved before the playoffs.

The Wellington Phoenix remains confident in their future, despite the Inland Revenue seeking to liquidate the company which owns the club.

New Zealand wines of genuine distinction and world class status are not legion, but they do exist. Some tick some of the boxes some of the time. A few seem to get it dead right most of the time.

Power elite look down on the rest of us, but they still want to be admired. Well, tough.

The human nose contains roughly 400 olfactory receptors, but no two people have the same sense of smell.

As if to prove there is more to Auckland 2011 than rugby, there is an Arts Festival just around the corner, therefore, the time has come to study the programme, to sort through the pick 'n' mix box of yummy cultural chocolates on offer.

The executive chef of dine by Peter Gordon at SkyCity answers your cuisine question.

WikiLeaks is set to release the overseas bank account details of 2000 'high-net worth' individuals and corporations.

He is from another era of current affairs television and tonight (Friday afternoon NZ time) that era will end.

On Friday morning 22 Fifa executives will vote in a secret ballot to decide the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

Champion skier Claudia Riegler enthuses about the shops, cafes and clubs that make the European ski experience so special.