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Cricket: Twenty20 will destroy the game – Hadlee

Rest in peace with Marilyn Monroe

A US widow is auctioning off the burial plot currently occupied by her late husband - above the plot where film legend Marilyn Monroe is buried.

Fitting tribute for Kiwi pilot

<i>Deborah Coddington:</i> If home is not a thriller, just beat it with music

<i>Matt McCarten:</i> Crazy Americans teach Kiwis what not to do

How Madoff kept scam going so long

Car trade-in scheme may be clunker

Air traffic controller 'talking to girlfriend' before midair crash [+new video]

Two New York air traffic controllers have allegedly been placed on disciplinary leave following fatal midair crash.

State Street faces $927m bill

<i>John Dorfman</i>: Markets blind to political colours

President appeals on web to fight healthcare 'rumours'

Obama wants drug war aid released to Mexico

School recalls pilot as 'great leader'

Fiancee tells chopper pilot's parents of death

The parents of the Kiwi helicopter pilot killed in a mid-air collision in New York were told of his death by his American fiancee.

Olivia Newton-John's missing ex-lover resurfaces

The singer's partner disappeared four years ago and was presumed drowned but new information indicates he may in fact be working as a deckhand in Mexico.

Dope-smoking snowboarders get diversion