Rolling Stones' tour of New Zealand is in doubt after the death of Mick Jagger's girlfriend, L'Wren Scott. Photo/AP. It may be later this week before it is known whether the Rolling Stones concert in Auckland on April 5 will go ahead. The band's tour of Australia ...

Scientists have detected the enigmatic ripples in deep space that were triggered by the rapid expansion of the Universe during the earliest moments of its creation some 13.7 billion years ago. In a ground-breaking experiment, astrophysicists have captured ...

HONG KONG (AP) Asian stocks drifted Monday as investors largely shrugged off a weekend vote in which Crimeans opted to leave Ukraine and join Russia. Safe-haven assets such as the Japanese yet got a boost after preliminary results showed an ...

Liverpool underlined its new-found superiority over Manchester United with a humbling 3-0 victory over its great rival today, virtually ending the beleaguered champions' chances of qualifying for the Champions League. On the darkest day of David Moyes' ...

It flashed up for less than a tenth of a second, but the damage was done and the reaction instant. As the South African state prosecutor asked for picture 162 to be displayed on the evidence screens, the computer had to zip through more than 100 images of ...

Ranked 79th in the world, the Italian is playing Indian Wells for the first time. Camila Giorgi has had her first win over a top-five player. Photo / AP. Camila Giorgi claimed an upset win over defending champion Maria Sharapova 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 in the third round of ...

June Steenkamp (left), the mother of Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, said Pistorius has not acknowledged her. Photo / AP. Oscar Pistorius' defence lawyer last night again tried to pick holes in the testimony of witnesses who said they heard ...

Oscar Pistorius, hugs his sister Aimee, right, inside court at the end of the second day of his trial. Photo / AP. For two days, the witness in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius kept her composure. Then, just as her testimony was about to finish, she broke down in ...

Shop 'til you drop? The supermarket set at Chanel's Fall/Winter 2014 presentation. Photo / Olivier Saillant. Karl Lagerfeld staged his autumn/winter 2014 Chanel collection in a recreation of a supermarket. The shelves were stocked with faux Chanel-branded ...

The discovery of an infectious giant virus that had been entombed in Siberian permafrost for 30,000 years has led scientists to warn of other disease-causing viruses and microbes that may escape from the frozen earth once it has melted. Scientists in France ...

Facebook is in talks to buy Titan Aerospace, a maker of solar-powered drones, to step up its efforts to provide internet access to remote parts of the world, according to reports from technology blog Techcrunch and financial news outlet CNBC. Both websites ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) South Africa captain Graeme Smith will retire from international cricket after the third test against Australia, he said on Monday, calling it the most difficult decision he's ever had to make. Smith's surprise move to quit after the ...

New Zealand's richest man, Graeme Hart has seen his wealth swell by some $2 billion in the past year. Forbes magazine announced its ranking of the world's billionaires overnight. Hart's net worth is now an estimated US $7 billion (NZ $8.36 billion) after a ...

Oscar Pistorius will rely on a hand-picked team of forensic experts when he mounts his defence against murder charges at a trial beginning in South Africa on Monday night (NZT). Pistorius, the 27-year-old Paralympian and Olympian dubbed the "Blade ...

A Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone, left, and a Samsung Gear 2 are displayed at the Samsung Galaxy Studio, in New York. Photo / AP. The big news out of the Mobile World Congress today is the launch of Samsung's latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5 ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) At least seven mourners were killed and 37 others were injured when a suspension bridge broke as they were transporting a coffin to a graveyard in northern Vietnam, police said Monday. Police officer Phung Quang Tuyen said cables ...

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, celebrating his 90th birthday before thousands of people at a soccer stadium Sunday, said he felt like a young boy and urged the nation to shun homosexuality. "I feel as youthful and energetic as a boy of nine," said ...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) Samsung is unveiling two new computerized wristwatches, this time with health sensors and related fitness features to give people a reason to buy one. Samsung's first Galaxy Gear smartwatch came out last fall amid much fanfare, ...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) Tunisia's Interior Ministry says that a band of militants ambushed security forces, killing four and wounding another four in two attacks. The ministry statement said early Sunday militants shot at a vehicle driving along a road in the ...

DURBAN, South Africa (AP) The Sharks and new boss Jake White began their bid for a first Super Rugby title with a 31-16 bonus-point win over the three-time champion Bulls at Kings Park on Saturday. The Sharks laid down strong credentials as a title ...