A wine with a whiff of "cat’s pee on a gooseberry bush" has transformed Marlborough’s Wairau Valley from scruffy farming country into New Zealand’s wine capital in just three decades.

This has been a trying year for fashion. While many loveable styles surfaced - long shirts a la Jackie O., flowing Bohemian skirts and sensible shoes - far worse trends arose much to our horror. There is no destruction of evil in fashion, only transference.

Millions of migraine sufferers could have their headaches "zapped" away by a hand-held machine being developed by scientists. The transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) device is held against the back of head, emitting a quick magnetic pulse to the patient.

Consumer familiarity with online shopping is accelerating the in-store use of kiosks and self-checkouts, which in turn is benefiting retailers that sell over multiple channels.

An Indian-American researcher has helped develop a tough new ceramic material that is almost twice as strong as concrete and may be the key to providing high-quality, low-cost housing throughout the developing world.

MySpace is roaring up the charts, reaching number seven in US unique visitors last month. Can 51 million people be a fad?

A survey of adults in Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas found that couples who go through premarital counseling are less likely to divorce.

How weird is too weird? How freaky too freaky? At what point does charm call out for ridicule? These are the questions that arise when considering the new "sport" of chessboxing.

A U.S. study finds that obesity in children, as it is in adults, is associated with more frequent and more severe headaches.

Today, Friday, June 23, is the happiest day of 2006.