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Vicious liquor store attack
Footage of a vicious robbery of a liquor store, during which an employee had a bottle of spirits smashed over his head, has been released.
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Kiwi movie star in court
Hollywood actor Cliff Curtis has been fined and disqualified from driving after appearing in a Rotorua court today.
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Updated 16 min ago
Diplomat case: Harawira's 'big mistake'
Hone Harawira says he made a "big mistake" for earlier dismissing the sex assault case involving a Malaysian diplomat as a "big fuss about bugger all".
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Updated 56 min ago
Children among dead in Texas shooting
Six people are dead, including four children, after someone opened fire at a home in a normally quiet neighborhood in a northern Houston suburb.
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Caseload: Inside Judge Cunningham
Some folk think ex-nurse turned district court judge Philippa Anne Cunningham should be looking for another job. What other cases has she tried?
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MP's husband under investigation
The Corrections Department has confirmed it is investigating a complaint about a staff member, said to be NZ First MP Asenati Lole-Taylor's husband Dennis Taylor.
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Skinned seal leaves officers in shock
A man out walking on the Marine Parade beachfront last weekend made a discovery which sickened him and left Department of Conservation officers disgusted.
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Doco sheds light on secluded Kiwi sect
A new documentary follows the six-week courtship and marriage of a young couple at the Gloriavale Christian sect, after its leaders opened the doors to a film crew.
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Football: Argentina win shootout
Argentina will play in their first World Cup final in 24 years after beating Netherlands in a penalty shootout after this morning's semifinal ended 0-0.
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'Smoke & mirrors' in cat food fight
Claims on packets of Whiskas cat biscuits are misleading and create "a smoke and mirrors effect", the lawyer for a competing pet food maker has told the High Court.
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Escort left Google exec to die on yacht
A high-end prostitute allegedly injected a Google executive with a dose of heroin, then finished her wine, left his yacht and left him to die.
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Hundreds attend Jordan's tangi
Several hundred mourners this morning farewelled teenage rugby player Jordan Kemp at Otamatea Marae, about 20km West of the Northland town of Maungaturoto.
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Africa to UK - on just one tank of fuel
How's this for fuel economy? A Mercedes has travelled 1968 kilometres from North Africa to England without having to refuel - and still had another 160km in it.
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Black Widow case: A taste of poison?
Murderer Helen Milner is appealing against her conviction, saying she couldn't possibly have laced her husband's food with a fatal overdose of drugs without him knowing…
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AMP Capital sells $1b of buildings offshore
AMP Capital Investors has agreed to sell 18 New Zealand properties worth more than $1 billion to Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board.
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Geoff Cooper: Radical planning shift needed for Auckland to prosper
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Both major parties are promising fundamental changes to the way rape cases are prosecuted - and that has some legal experts concerned.
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It was one of the greatest love stories in history and now the marriage certificate that sealed the union of Napoleon and…
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Three of the six Israelis held over the abduction and killing of a Palestinian teenager last week are to be released, Israeli media says.
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