New Zealand's Brendon Hartley will race with Italian team Coloni Motorsport in the final two rounds of the GP2 series, which is regarded as the strongest Formula One feeder category. The Palmerston North driver will race at the...

First it was his watches. Then his earrings. Now Diego Maradona's 50th birthday presents might end up in the hands of Italy's tax collection agency. Maradona is hoping to play a birthday game at his old stadium in Naples next month,...

The Vatican has raised the possibility of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery. In its first public statement on the case, which has attracted worldwide...

Japanese rider Shoya Tomizawa died from injuries sustained in a crash in the San Marino Moto2 grand prix on Sunday. The 19-year-old Technomag-CIP rider came off his Suter bike when under pressure from the fast charging Italian...

Italian writer-director Luca Guadagnino is not really Italian at all. He was born in Sicily to a Sicilian father and Algerian mother and spent much of his childhood in Ethiopia. So in a sense he brings an outsider's eye to I Am Love...

My partner and I are spending three weeks exploring the West Coast of the United States and flying home via Hawaii. We are basing ourselves at Waikiki Beach for four nights. How easy is it to get to the other islands and what would...

Last week's column focused on the infuriatingly futile search for something interesting on a supermarket wine shelf. And since I've found those poorly stocked shelves to be wanting, it is only fair to share where I do find good wines,...