A beloved Dunedin shoe manufacturer, owned by the same family for close to 150 years, is on the market.

Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner was the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound during a 38.6km leap through the stratosphere.

Conservative politician Norman Tebbit was a key ally of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in her free-market transformation of Britain.

Public health researchers have warned poor air quality inside hospitals, schools, workplaces, public buildings and homes is "a major, but largely invisible, health risk".

The British royals will display their unrivalled soft power when Donald Trump visits Britain next week, seeking to mollify the US President as few others can.

The mother of the missing Marokopa children was in court on a driving charge just hours after her former husband Tom Phillips was shot dead, and while police were searching for the remaining children.