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14-year-old given permission to sail around world
The New Zealand-born Dutch girl who wants to sail solo around the world is now being allowed to go, after all.
Grunt work
While you nurse your New Year hangover, the World's Strongest Man will be busy lifting cars.
Politics 2009: Key, Goff and the recession
A new PM defied the odds as the Govt struggled to deal with the worst recession in decades, and Labour played catch up politics.
Pop-up bars: Now you see them ...
Here today, gone tomorrow. Joanna Hunkin looks at the international fascination with pop-up bars and their rise in New Zealand.
Soccer: Public hanging reveals City's true colours
Club got the sacking of its manager wrong at every step.
<i>Anthony Doesburg:</i> Where rising tides are more than a future threat
Many nations fear rising water levels, but the Netherlands already has practical experience.
<i>Deborah Hill Cone:</i> Barbs, bemusements and bollockings
That's it then - another year of spouting, pronouncing and sticking the occasional spanner in the works.
Flood of drug money kept banks afloat, says UN man
What kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis?
<i>Yoke Har Lee:</i> Firm plays NZ drawcard to win drug trials
High standards and lower costs have helped to gain contracts from international pharmaceutical firms.
MacKillop to become Australia's first saint
Mary MacKillop is set to become Australia's first saint after Pope Benedict XVI approved her second miracle.
NZ has 'great hope' for talks, Key tells Copenhagen
Prime Minister John Key remains hopeful of a deal at Copenhagen but thinks if progress is to be made ambitions may need to lower.
Key unlikely to use power to up emissions cuts target
John Key will enter climate talks tonight with the power to up NZ's 10-20 per cent target for emissions cuts, but he is very unlikely to use it.
DHB board member who questioned another's integrity suspended
Dr Suresh Vatsyayann was asked to withdraw comments made in an email and apologise to the Waikato board and management, but refused.