What's the Big Idea comes up with more bright new inventions - like a wearable wrist strap that counts how many words you are speaking. Useful for those people who talk to much.

There are allegations that Thames Valley Police failed a candidate because they didn't like his name, Brian. Brian could probably sue, if it wasn't for the fact that he is a horse.

Two Russian planes have been escorted from the edge of UK airspace. It seems Vladamir Putin wants to return to the days of the cold war.

We often hear the claim that by stopping the boats we have saved lives. Can we really make that claim? Likely as not, we have just shifted the problem elsewhere.

Last week we heard how NBC newsreader Brian Williams quit NBC under the embarrassment of making up war stories. Well it seems Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly is just as guilty.

As Australia prepares for the death of Andrew Chan and Myran Sukumaran, Utah wants to show how barbaric it can be, proposing to introduce death by firing squad.

There are 3.4 million Australians aged over 65 – in ten years’ time that’ll be 4.6 million, in twenty years 6.1 million. Can we really afford to keep them in the manner they'd like to be accustomed?

Only 640 of 1,600 New Zealand state schools surveyed had religious education classes - even then many didn't know what syllabus they were following.

Cathryn Herd, a Dunedin woman has asked her boyfriend to marry him, despite refusing each request he has made over the last 15 years. Now there's a woman who clearly wants to be in control.

Last year New Zealand lowered the blood alcohol level for drink driving. So what impact has it had on alcohol sales?