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<i>Review:</i> The Official Opening of the New Organ at Auckland Town Hall
There was no mistaking a historic occasion when Aucklanders packed the Town Hall to sample its newly restored organ.

Controversial museum chief quits
Dr Vanda Vitali, the Auckland museum director whose actions drew the Hillary family into a bitter public battle, has resigned.

Television invasion hoax hits raw nerve
A terrifyingly realistic report on Georgian TV - simulating a massive invasion by Russia - caused widespread panic in the country.

More horror sites set to be added to busy tourism trail
The place where the body of Pol Pot, the former Khmer Rouge leader, was unceremoniously burned in a pile of rubbish is set to be the latest location from Cambodia's dark recent history to be transformed into a tourist spot.

Revisiting a master storyteller
There were years when, as both authors and as publishers, A.H. and A.W. Reed were the main source of Maori myth and legend for New Zealand readers.

Tourists warned: no jandals at Gallipoli
Leave your jandals at home and behave with dignity is the advice to Kiwis thinking of going to Gallipoli for the 95th commemoration of the Allied landing in World War 1.

Offensive names disappear as Americans redraw map
For more than a century, Negrohead Mountain has towered over the countryside north of Malibu, offering unrivalled views of the Pacific to generations of hikers.

The adventures of Felix Kelly
Expat artist Felix Kelly is little known in his homeland but his colourful life story reads like a movie.