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Editorial: Sport's spectacular should trump Rio's troubles
As the curtain rises on the 31st Olympics, the prospects for a memorable games in Rio de Janiero are uncertain.
As the curtain rises on the 31st Olympics, the prospects for a memorable games in Rio de Janiero are uncertain.
The description "head coach" on Kevin Roberts' CV is probably one he deeply treasured.
COMMENT: London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, wrote an important article for the Mail on Sunday this week.
The debate over the Bain murders looks destined never to be resolved in the public mind.
Regulation is hard to get right. The political climate tends to swing from excessive freedom to excessive restriction or vice versa.
It is a tough task for teenagers to make sound decisions about their career path.
After winning the Rugby World Cup last year, All Black coach Steve Hansen could probably name the tenure of his next contract.
For the past two weeks, reporter David Fisher and photographer Mark Mitchell have taken us on a journey through New Zealand as it is today.
New Zealand's prison muster is closing in on 10,000 inmates, about the population of Greymouth.
The Republican Party in the United States conferred its nomination for President on a man of doubtful political pedigree and unpredictable intentions.
Plagiarism is bad form. Campuses throw out undergraduates caught cribbing lines. But that's not the way it works in Donald Trump's world.
A Treasury official suggested the Government could save more than $500 million a year legalising the popular drug.
Having once been too reliant on one export market, NZ does not want to be in that position again, whether the market is post-Brexit Britain or China.
Russia and her allies have started a fightback to stay in the Rio Olympics after the sensational disclosures about a state-directed doping programme.
The Vice-President should enjoy his 24 hours here. His personality and his politics are closer to a Kiwi style than most American officials we greet.
Having summoned democracy to his side, the Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may need to be more willing to honour it.
Two pathfinding odysseys are circling the globe in unconventional carriers.
China refused to participate in the Sea Law case and does not recognise it as a legitimate exercise under international law.
If the gun lobby in the US has been impervious to the carnage caused by lax gun laws, it surely cannot continue to ignore the power of phone cameras.
The Ministry of Health refuses to fund a simple sleeping pod for babies so they might more safely sleep alongside their mothers.
Way out in space, so far that it takes a message nearly an hour to reach earth, the Nasa craft Juno is doing what the classical mythologists anticipated.
John Chilcot produced his verdict on the Blair Government's decision to join the US' invasion of Iraq. None of its findings are a surprise.
First Trump, then Brexit, now the Australian election has produced a rebellion of sorts.
Editorial: The PM's announced $1 billion fund for interest-free loans for infrastructure to support new housing developments is another piece in the continuing response to its most pressing problem.
Editorial: If Ports of Auckland was on the sharemarket, it would not be still enraging Aucklanders with these bids for more of the harbour.
The ritual unveiling of the New Zealand Olympic uniform follows a now familiar path.
Serious social imbalances take shine off good performances in polls and economy.
When most of us look at a map of Auckland's railways, a spur line to the airport appears obvious and easy.
The Prime Minister was too quick to declare his confidence in this country's treatment of foreign trusts following the "Panama papers".
If Britain stands to suffer most from its foolish decision last week, the EU could be hurt just as badly if it cannot eject Britain quickly.