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Strategic Finance receivers seek to delist company

Amy Winehouse is getting clucky

Amy Winehouse wants a baby. The <i>Rehab</i> singer has reportedly been open about her plans to start a family with Blake Fielder-Civil.

Former immigration boss to be sentenced

NZ market slightly up on quiet day

NZ dollar steady, strong against euro

Charges upgraded to manslaughter over balcony fall

French get to chew over migrant's win

The 2010 prize for the best baguette de tradition, or traditional baguette, in Paris has been won by a man born in Senegal.

Sarkozy foe looks to polls for revenge

Under French tradition, Dominique de Villepin's political hopes should be 'dead in the water'.

Conchords sell out British shows

<i>Flight of the Conchords</i> seem to be doing okay when it comes to "business time" (that's not a euphemism).

UK 'ran renegade torture unit in Iraq'

Fresh evidence has emerged that British military intelligence ran a secret operation in Iraq which authorised degrading and unlawful treatment of prisoners.

Extremists and anti-fascists clash in UK

Forgotten hoard of unworn vintage 70s clothing found

US general blames gay troops for massacre

A US general has sparked fury in the Netherlands by suggesting gay Dutch troops were partly to blame for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

Hunger striker dies in Swiss shackles

Four Tet - There Is Love In You

Scott Kara reviews new album <I>There Is Love In You</I> from Four Tet

NZ dollar world's best performer over past week

School issues first national standards-based reports

Some of NZ's first national standards-based student reports have been issued by a Hamilton school amid concerns from its principal.

Right-to-die talks banned in Ireland

An Australian euthanasia advocate is meeting plenty of vocal opposition as he tours Ireland.