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Did organisers mix up our flag?

Did the Rio Olympic officials get the flags the wrong way around at this morning's medal ceremony for New Zealand's surprise silver performer Luuka Jones?

Haemorrhoid operation by mistake

A man waiting anxiously for the birth of his baby outside a hospital ward in China was given an operation on his haemorrhoids in a case of mistaken identity.

National

Olympics

World

Aleppo medics' plea to Obama

Syrian doctors in opposition districts of Aleppo have accused the United States of inaction in the face of repeated atrocities in the devastated city.

Business

Politics

Officials to interview Assange

Ecuador will let Swedish officials interview Julian Assange at its embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder has been sheltering since June 2012.

Lifestyle

Video

Entertainment

Travel

Kia Ora: Owaka

Owaka is Maori for "place of the canoe", a reference to the town's proximity to the Owaka River and the first Maori inhabitants who called this place home.

Opinion

Sport

Boyle misses out on 800m final

New Zealand's best medal hope in the pool Lauren Boyle has narrowly missed out on a place in the 800m freestyle final at the Rio Olympics. Boyle, a silver medallist…

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