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Bears used to guard crop

BHP Billiton gets hostile in bid for Potash

Fish species adapts to climate change

Trial to hear how the years changed a teen terrorist

Banding together

Canadian anti-pop collective Broken Social Scene's New Zealand shows are likely to be as messy and mysterious as their music. Edward Helimore reports.

Canadian jet pilot ejects to safety

NZ's firearm homicide rate drops

Gun killings in NZ have declined the most in an international comparison - even though it has less strict licensing laws than Canada and Australia.

Poker hopefuls head south

Fifteen lucky poker players are headed from Auckland to Queenstown this week for a chance to strike it rich.

A blurring of fact and fiction

He insists on his own story being told as truth, but author Guy Gavriel Kay's own writing is more effective for its addition of fantasy, writes David Larsen.

Key: NZ not immune to people-smuggling

NZ won't extend the number of refugees it accepts and needs to address the increasing risk of people-smuggling boats hitting our shores, says the PM.

Softball: Canadian softballers win

Locals on lockdown for G20 summit

Security scare before G8, G20 summits

G20 leaders face rising deficit worries

Canadian zoo animals on unplanned safari

Plane skids off runway

Mudslide sweeps through Canadian town

A mudslide has destroyed about a dozen buildings in the fruit-growing region of southern British Columbia.

Canada expo 'over the top'