Loan wars: Gifts galore
Flat-screen TVs, cash for groceries and even iPads - banks are competing to offer more attractive prizes to sweeten home loan deals as higher interest rates are forecast…
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Losing Black Caps bowled out for 68
New Zealand's innings disintegrated for 68 in one hour and 54 minutes, losing the first Test against England at Lord's by 170 runs after being set 239 for victory.
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Judge rules in luxury high-rise spat
A resident of New Zealand's tallest apartment tower has lost his defamation action against a group of high-profile people running the block's body corporate.
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Relative charged after man slain
A Northland man will appear in court today charged with murdering the man he grew up with "like brothers".
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Powerball jackpot: Who won $710m?
Some lucky person walked into a Florida supermarket over the past few days and bought a ticket worth an estimated $710m - the highest Powerball jackpot in history.
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Investor morale jumps
Against a backdrop of rising share prices and a booming Auckland housing market, investor confidence reached its highest level.
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Police: No case against CTV man
An Australian police probe has found no criminal wrongdoing against the New Zealand man who oversaw construction of the CTV building in Christchurch.
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Call to relax rules for MPs with babies
Parliament's Speaker is considering a rule change for MPs with babies.
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NZ ready to aid Middle East deal
Foreign Minister Murray McCully will tomorrow offer the US Secretary of State.
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Lid lowered on global warming rate
New research from Oxford University shows the rate of global warming has been lower over the past decade than it was previously.
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Charting Pasifika's progress in NZ
The Pacific community has stamped its mark firmly on New Zealand society. There are 20,000 more Niueans living here than in Niue.
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Doctors charge $25 for children
Parents from some low-income Auckland suburbs face paying up to $25 for young children to see a doctor at an after-hours clinic.
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Pair honoured for rescue of man from sinking car
Out on an early morning run, Jane Patterson was first on the scene when a car plunged into Auckland's Waitemata Harbour on March 13.
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Opinion
Editorial: Push needed to hold mass appeal events
Sometimes it takes an outside eye to reveal the full extent of a change in circumstance.
Hickey: Housing promise without a plan
Bernard Hickey says the Auckland Housing Accord at the centre of this week's Budget is what the Americans would call a "Hail Mary pass".
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National
Stop the spin and listen, residents tell council
A public meeting of about 500 people has told the Auckland Council to rethink its intensification plans for the city, start…
Science experiments leaves expert cold
The National Science Challenges promised to be one of the most exciting experiments ever seen in our science and innovation sector.
Engine discovery triggers 91-year-old ex-pilot's memories of fatal crash
Images of a wrecked engine from a Royal New Zealand Airforce Harvard brought memories flooding back to pilot Aubrey Bills, 60 years after he survived the crash that…
Show director injured in fall
The director of Ashburton's production of Miss Saigon was seriously injuries when he fell from the stage during a rehearsal days before out from the first show.
Business
Shell applies squeeze in gas hunt
Shell says its campaign to squeeze untapped gas from the Maui field is meeting expectations as it casts it net to far flung…
Results from Malaysia buoy Fonterra
Fonterra's Malaysian operation has doubled its revenue in local currency terms over the past five years.
Firms unfazed by risk from social media
Few top businesspeople in this country think social networks such as Twitter and Facebook place their firms' reputations at risk, new research suggests.
Tea grower brews plan for success
When Tzu Chen first saw camellia trees flourishing in the Waikato, it seeded what could have been viewed as an impossible dream.
Technology
Telecom stays mum on online TV plans
Telecom is keeping its powder dry on its plans for internet television and revealed little about what entertainment services…
Popular Science names the 10 best inventions
VideoFrom jamming sounds to extreme prosthetics, Popular Science magazine has picked 10 inventions it feels could be the next big thing.
Mac Planet: Apples in space
By now you may have seen Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's video of his version of Space Oddity, the David Bowie song, shot and recorded in space. Hadfield has been…
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World
Al-Qaeda exploits oilfields
Al-Qaeda's Syrian wing is financing its activities by selling oil from the fields that once helped to prop up the regime…
Tory 'swivel eyed loons' hit back at inner circle's slur
David Cameron has been told by Conservative activists that he must repair the broken relationship between the party leadership and the grassroots.
$6m to keep tabs on Assange
The cost of policing the Ecuadorean Embassy in Knightsbridge while WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange takes refuge inside has now risen to £3.3 million ($6.2 million)…
Lucky escapes in emergencies at Moscow, Newark
Part of an airliner carrying about 130 people caught fire as it was landing in Moscow, and passengers evacuated the plane by jumping off one of its wings and shooting…
Sport
Rugby: Blues not in same class as Crusaders
The Blues gave it plenty but were not in the same class as the Crusaders.
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Yachting: Dalton worried rivals may cash in on tragedy
Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton is concerned rivals are using the recent tragedy involving Artemis as an opportunity to push their own agendas for the America's Cup…
Kayaking: Golden double for Carrington
Soccer: Arsenal into Champions League, Ferguson bows out
Politics
Stars get behind Kiwi Bid
Kiwi sports stars have thrown their support behind a new campaign to protect what they say is a major threat to New Zealand…
Budget will help vulnerable Kiwis
Finance Minister Bill English says the Budget 2013 will help the most vulnerable people in society "who the Government has served very poorly in the past"
Herald on Sunday editorial: Kiwis need a lot more protection
They are this country's least desirable export and occasionally they come back to bite. They are the New Zealanders who commit crimes of violence overseas and are deported…
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Despite all the political and media posturing over Thursday's Budget, nothing much really happened - again, writes Matt McCarten.
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Small business: Brand ambassadors - Scott Gardiner
MYOB New Zealand executive director, Scott Gardiner on establishing ambassadors for your brand instead of doing it all yourself…
