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<i>Unsung Heroes:</i> 86-year-old knitting for charities

Red Cross in Mongolia appeal

Nigerian slaughter shatters fragile balance

Jos has become an explosive fault line between the country's Muslim-dominated north and predominantly Christian south.

Haiti cash tops $1 billion

80 dead in Uganda

Modernist gem under the hammer

Schoolroom collapse kills three

$200,000 for cyclone-hit Cook Islands

Civilians flee as Afghan offensive looms

Snow-hit highways to reopen

Two major highways may re-open this afternoon after unseasonal heavy snow in the last two days stranded motorists for two nights.

More NZ medical staff head to Samoa

Snow-stuck motorists face second night in shelters

Snow traps Napier-Taupo motorists, hits farmers

Motorists who spent a freezing night in their snow-trapped cars on the Napier-Taupo Highway are rescued.

NZers give $350,000 in tsunami aid

NZer watches drunk Aussie crushed by train at Oktoberfest

A NZ man was walking with an Australian along a train track when the accident occurred.

Confusion, excitement – Samoan drivers switch sides

This morning I drove out of my house on the right hand side of the road, and returned on the left, in the same country, in the same car.

<i>Sideswipe:</i> Those bloody developers

Death row organs used for transplants

Chinese government has admitted that two thirds of all organs used in transplants in the country are taken from executed prisoners.