Extra security has been hired for Borders and Whitcoulls stores as staff face aggressive customers angry about conditions placed on redeeming gift vouchers.

A Whangarei policeman sacked after he was acquitted on an assault charges has failed to win his job back.

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The future of Whitcoulls - one of NZ's most famous and enduring retail chains - is in jeopardy after administrators were called in last night to run the book-retailing business.

Book chains Borders and Whitcoulls have been put under administration in Australia and New Zealand.

Negotiations are continuing for the release of the sister of an Auckland man and her partner who were taken hostage by Somali pirates, with a friend of the couple hopeful a resolution will be reached soon.

The Government should have known about the purchase of 34 new BMW limousines for ministers, but Prime Minister John Key learned of the multimillion-dollar deal from his chauffeur last week.

Julia Gillard's speech to Parliament brought lumps to the throats of many NZ MPs and some admitted to "tearing up" during it.

The Japanese whaling fleet appears to have called an early end to its whaling season in Antarctica, a move which conservationists tentatively say could spell an end to whaling in the Southern Ocean.

The Government should have been told one of its departments decided to sell three-year-old BMWs and buy new ones, Prime Minister John Key says.

Middle distance legend Sir John Walker will become the first New Zealander to present an Olympic medal on home soil next week.