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Monumental losses
Once part of the bricks and mortar of Auckland's cityscape, a range of historic buildings are no more. Alan Perrott looks into their rise and fall.
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Mantel named Booker prize winner
'Wolf Hall' - a rip-roaring historical tome about Thomas Cromwell - has won the $68,000 Man Booker Prize.
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Air NZ Erebus memorial 'publicity stunt'
The father of a man who died in the Mt Erebus disaster says a plan to fly victims' families back to the site is a publicity stunt.
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Vikings were scared of Scots
The Viking reputation as bloodthirsty conquerors has endured for more than a millennium but new research shows that some Norsemen approached the British islands with more than a little trepidation.
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Aussies honour our pioneer of the skies
Qantas will today celebrate naming one of its new transtasman aircraft after our most famous pilot - Jean Batten.
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Laws lets loose in email exchange
Michael Laws is embroiled in fresh controversy after an email exchange over the 'h' in Wanganui went viral.
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Laws: Sharples does not understand democracy
Wanganui's mayor said Pita Sharples did not understand "any culture that is not Maori", after the Maori Party co-leader called for Wanganui residents to accept its new name.
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Family rift that made Puma and adidas healed
After six decades apart, the labels' present day bosses are to bury the hatchet.