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NZ ranked 20th in UN quality of life survey
New Zealand has been named the 20th best country for quality of life by a UN report on migration and development.

Flight crew fight, passengers watch
As an Air India aeroplane flew at 30,000ft, passengers were witness to scuffle between the pilots and cabin crew.

<i>Gwynne Dyer:</i> Sanctions against Iran now seem inevitable
Western intelligence agencies have known about Iran's second uranium enrichment plant, hidden in the mountains west of Qom, since construction began in 2006.

Stop humiliating me, traveller pleads
A NZ citizen of Middle Eastern origin says he is discriminated against by Customs officials who interrogate every time he returns home.

Katie Price: 'I'll never name celeb rapist'
Katie Price has phoned a live TV programme to say she will never name the 'famous celebrity' who allegedly raped her.

Bin Laden appeals to Obama to end war
Osama bin Laden has allegedly said in a new audiotape that President Obama's Afghanistan strategy is "hopeless" and has called on the US to end the Afghanistan war and break its alliance with Israel.