Groups of wild snow monkeys have recently been spotted warming themselves up in the hot springs of Nagano, located on central Japan's Honshu Island.

A Florida woman has just celebrated her 105th birthday with a party in the place where she's been volunteering for 38 years.

The drug bexarotene, which is used for skin cancer patients, is showing signs that it could reverse Alzheimeras symptoms.

An Auckland food franchise is investigating after a large jagged blade was found in one of its wraps.

Ashleah Gilchrist is a red head. Over the years she's learnt to be sun conscious knowing her fair skin burns easily.

When Issy Cairns was just four weeks old, her parents were told she was profoundly deaf.

If you are still breastfeeding at six months then according to the health ministry you are a success. Kate Rhodes is not.

Family First says parents who put their children into daycare are harming their childrenas development.

Britain has marked the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, the first global celebrity author and chronicler of a world of urban inequality.

Health authorities are calling on the Auckland City Council to stop the spread of fast food outlets in the cityas poorest suburbs.

Autism is being connected with computer hacking - but can it be used as a defence for online crime?

Beverley Beaton has camped in the Arctic Circle, climbed in the Himalayas, been a nurse and a midwife. But she has never been a birthday girl.

Earlier this year All Black Piri Weepu gave up his time to take part in a Smokefree advertisement made by the Health Sponsorship Council.

A protest will take place tomorrow at Sydneyas Facebook headquarters after the social networking site removed hundreds of photos of women breastfeeding.

Arachnophobia - the fear of spiders - is among the most common of all phobias. But why?

At an animal shelter in Nicaragua's capital of Managua, veterinarians are nursing months-old puma cubs back to health after they were rescued from traps set by farmers.

Ashburton Hospital's operating theatre block has been found to be a very high quake risk, forcing surgeries to be cancelled and moved elsewhere.

Haggling in New Zealand used to be limited to school fairs and secondhand car yards - but that's changing fast.

An Auckland lawyer says New Zealand authorities need to launch an investigation into metal-on-metal hip implants.

Is it really possible to teach children under one to read and understand the written word?

A fashion designer who left Christchurch following last February's earthquake has found moving further south has opened up opportunities she never expected.

New Zealand has the highest rate of gout in the world, but Kiwi researchers have come up with a new product which helps relieve the symptoms.

The man whose breast implant company PIP sparked an international health scandal is under arrest and could be charged with manslaughter.

Twelve six-month-old giant pandas joined the celebrations of the Chinese Lunar New Year this week.

More and more women are turning to hypnosis to help deal with the pain of childbirth.

Spiders do not often make people think of fashion, but from deep in the jungles of Madagascar one spider is on course to change that.

Anyone who sells, barters, or even gives away food will soon have to get their head around the new law.

An endangered pygmy hippopotamus has met the public for the first time at Buin Zoo, just south of Santiago.

If we are going to prosecute tourists for using the wilderness as a toilet, are we providing enough public amenities for them?

Patients have been going out of their way to alert the media to hospital food horror stories.

It's called the Nike Plus Fuel Band. Nike partnered with Apple to create a new mobile phone app that will compile data, and allow you to share and compare it with friends on line.

Questions are being raised about whether it would be possible to enforce a smoking ban in all of Aucklandas public areas.

A one-year-old panda cub played, jumped and rolled around in his first snowfall this week.

A polar-bear cub born on New Year's Day - and then rejected by her mother - is in a stable condition, say staff at Penglai Ocean and Polar Region World in China.

Semi-retirement suits drummer Nick Mason perfectly, allowing him to enjoy his other love a racing classic cars.

Travel agents are experiencing a spike in bookings to Europe as the Kiwi dollar gains value against the Euro.

The captain of a cruise liner that ran aground and capsised off the Tuscan coast is facing accusations from authorities and passengers that he abandoned ship before everyone was safely evacuated.