Australian Suzie Miller's play Prima Facie has been called "one of the most electrifying pieces of theatre on Broadway" and this year won an Olivier Award following a Westend run.

Danish adventurer, filmmaker and writer Thor F. Jensen completed a 6300km circumnavigation of the Island of New Guinea in a traditional outrigger sailing canoe.- a world-first achieved in collaboration with three Papuan master sailors.

English actor Dame Penelope Wilton's warm smile will be familiar to fans of Downton Abbey, Doctor Who and the Ricky Gervais series Afterlife. Her new film The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a study of the different ways two people react to profound loss, Penelope tells Colin Peacock.

Do we hear music differently across cultures? What about between the sexes? And does singing to a baby improve their mental health? These are some of the questions The Music Lab's Principal Investigator psychologist Dr Samuel Mehr is looking to answer.

When a major league US baseball team recently picked a fight with a group of queer and trans 'nuns', they struck out. After announcing the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence would be honoured with a community heroes award, the LA Dodgers buckled to conservative pressure from Republican politicians and some Catholic groups, revoking the award and an invitation to their Pride Night.

This week the government released a Safer Online Services and Media Platforms "discussion document" proposing to regulate online content the same way other media is regulated.

Once upon a time, perhaps, there was no time.

About 1 in 6 New Zealanders live with chronic pain. Psychologist Dr Rachel Zoffness believes that medical treatment of chronic pain often fails because it is based on a flawed model of how pain works..

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About 1800 years ago a powerful super-eruption of the Taupo volcano resulted in a plume of ash that coated lakeside areas in tens of metres of pumice and ash and a lava flow that spread up to 90 kilometres. Last year a volcanic alert for Taupo was issued for the first time.