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Cara tops Kate as brows bank cheques

Cara Delevingne has become the second-richest supermodel in the world beating Kate Moss for the first time.

Belfast: One eye on the past

Belfast has not forgotten its troubled history but the city's future is looking brighter, finds David Mercer.

Liquid nitrogen shot: Teen lost stomach

Wine bar fined $244,600 after an 18-year-old girl had to have her stomach removed after drinking a free liquid nitrogen cocktail.

Electorates convulse - silliness is afoot

A narcissistic blowhard leads the Republican presidential race. Australia goes through PMs like a banana republic on fast-forward. What's going on?

Woman convicted of impersonating man

Gayle Newland disguised her appearance and voice to dupe her friend into having sex.

She bangs: Kate's new hairstyle

In her first public appearance since July, the Duchess of Cambridge revealed a new fringe as she arrived at church yesterday with her husband Prince William.

Shock over stabbing of Kiwi in England

The family of a Kiwi man who was stabbed to death are being offered support from a trust set up in the memory of a teenager who also died from knife wounds.

UK signals radical left rising

Corbyn's rise echoes that of another senior-citizen socialist who has come out of nowhere this year to rattle his party's centre-left establishment.

Spiral spam back to sender

A British developer has come up with an ingenious way of getting rid of annoying spam emails and getting revenge on the people sending them in one fell swoop.

Chef snaps up 17th century home

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has snapped up an eight-bedroom 17th-century Grade II-listed home in north London.

Paul Thomas: Corbyn's socialist quest likely to end in tears

If there's a positive to his stunning rise, it's that he's the absolute antithesis of the carefully groomed and packaged identikit candidate, writes Paul Thomas.

Hydrogen fuel cell powers smartphone

A British technology company has developed an iPhone that can go a week without recharging, running instead off a built-in hydrogen fuel cell.

The tragedy of Natalia Strelchenko

World-renowned pianist found beaten to death in her home, and police have arrested husband on suspicion of murder.

Holocaust denier runs concentration camp tours

The Holocaust-denying historian David Irving has sparked anger by organising $4,830 tours of concentration camps.

High profile Brit in NZ seeking investment

Sir Michael Bear visited Auckland today to raise interest in investing in £100 billion worth of regeneration projects.

Parking ticket while helping 100-year-old

A man was left with a parking ticket after he left his car on yellow lines for just six minutes because his 100-year-old mother-in-law needed the toilet.