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Rugby: Rokocoko returns for Blues
All Blacks winger Joe Rokocoko has been reinstated to the Blues' starting team to play the Chiefs on Saturday.
Rescuers break news of wife's glacier death to Aussie man
An Aussie man who fell 40m down a slippery ice face with his wife while climbing in the Fiordland National Park....
Securities Commission bids to stop Whimp share transfer
The Securities Commission has applied for a court order to prevent partnerships associated with Bernard Whimp from transferring shares from investors who accepted his low-ball offers.
NZ to remain in Afghanistan for at least a year
New Zealand's military presence in Bamiyan will remain at current levels for at least a year.
Judgment Day? Yeah, right
That was Skeptics Society chair Vicki Hyde's response to billboards claiming the world will end on May 21.
Good little girl goes ga-ga
I don't know what has happened to my formerly cherubic little girl of late.
Stoush over Sir Ed's treasures heads to court
A legal row between the widow of Sir Edmund Hillary and his children over who owns some of his treasures heads to court in Auckland today with the hope it will be settled without a full hearing.
Beer hops off buyers' lists
Kiwis appear to be calling time on their love affair with beer, partly because of spiralling living costs.
WOMAD: Musical melting pot
It's the flags you see first. WOMAD, held annually at Taranaki's beautiful Brooklands Park, is littered with them.