During a practice ahead of the Players Championship, PGA tour player Greg Owen stripped off and waded into a pond to save a baby bird from drowning, after he saw the bird fall in.

How to catch an emu in five easy steps. Step One: Wave an old woollen blanket like a matador’s cape. Step Two: Advance toward the emu, holding the blanket. Step Three: Try to corner it, and pray it doesn’t rip the legs off the poor lady in the summer dress and sandals, bravely waving her bare arms around. Step Four: Get a firefighter, preferably from Kaiwaka, wearing heavy protective clothing, to tackle the emu. Step Five: With your pants shredded from the emu’s claws, lie on top of it and proudly declare “only Kaiwaka could do this!”.

Two Aucklanders have come up with an innovative business plan that could ease the pain of hungover party hosts trying to clean up after a big night. Flatmates Catherine Ashurst, a consultant, and Rebecca Foley, a chartered accountant, are the founders of startup Morning-After Maids, a service that will come to your house the morning after a party and vacuum the chips out of the carpet, wipe unidentified sludge off the walls and even cook you breakfast to cure the hangover.

Valerie Adams has added to the running man craze, dancing with her trainers during a workout.

New Jersey is introducing legislation handing out fines to pedestrians who are distracted by their phones while crossing a road. How common is this in NZ cities?

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A fuzzy old cat’s indecision over how to best make the leap into its owner’s linen cupboard has brought smiles to Aucklanders.

A big-busted Kiwi woman has issued a double F-you to bra companies for not stocking sexy bras in bigger sizes.

Auckland-based regenerative medicine expert, Dr Frances Pitsilis, says while fatigue is very common, it can also be debilitating and worrisome. She looks at some of the reasons why many of us feel constantly tired.

There was too much sun, swimming, eating and zooming about in Jaguars and private helicopters, but Instagram diva Toast the dog took the Hamptons last summer and lived to write about it.

Breana Drummond was born with congenital heart defects. She has been chosen to compete in the Youth America Grand Prix ballet competition.

Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, whose modernist, futuristic designs included the swooping aquatic center for the 2012 London Olympics, has died at age 65. She leaves a string of bold, often beautiful and sometimes controversial buildings around the world.

A busy central Auckland street was full of onlookers trying to get glimpses of a Shave for a Cure fundraiser involving New Zealand celebrities today.

My Kitchen Rules NZ judge Ben Bayly believed Kiwis were becoming more sophisticated in the kitchen.

Suzi Tair-Bradly at Mission Heights Primary School talks about how she created a programme Little Cooks which teaches young students about how to cook healthy food.

Carolyn Booker talks about losing her daughter, Tonya, to HIV and how this led her to support the Positive Women Campaign.

La Cucina dell’Arte beckons us to peep through a keyhole into the world’s worst restaurant and open the doors to a topsy-turvy, pizza-flipped joint where servants become masters, candles and crockery take on lives of their own and spoons play a tarantella on wine bottles.

Auckland business student talks about how she is being pressured not to breastfeed her young baby in class because university officials believe it will distract students and staff.

Jarryd Stoneman posted this touching video on Facebook. Now it's been shared over 3800 times.

Acomfort food chain described as the Denny’s of Malaysia is opening up to seven restaurants in New Zealand. PappaRich, which offers a menu of 160 items including nasi lemak and curry laksa, has more than 100 outlets in nine countries, including Australia and the United States. Its first New Zealand outlet is in Aotea Square’s Metro building.

Weekend Herald editor Miriyana Alexander introduces your Weekend Herald.

Auckland's largest real estate firm Barfoot and Thompson's spokesman Eric Koh said there was no push for its agents to learn feng shui.

Weekend Herald editor Miriyana Alexander introduces your Weekend Herald.