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Mantel named Booker prize winner
'Wolf Hall' - a rip-roaring historical tome about Thomas Cromwell - has won the $68,000 Man Booker Prize.
Air NZ Erebus memorial 'publicity stunt'
The father of a man who died in the Mt Erebus disaster says a plan to fly victims' families back to the site is a publicity stunt.
Vikings were scared of Scots
The Viking reputation as bloodthirsty conquerors has endured for more than a millennium but new research shows that some Norsemen approached the British islands with more than a little trepidation.
Aussies honour our pioneer of the skies
Qantas will today celebrate naming one of its new transtasman aircraft after our most famous pilot - Jean Batten.
Laws lets loose in email exchange
Michael Laws is embroiled in fresh controversy after an email exchange over the 'h' in Wanganui went viral.
Laws: Sharples does not understand democracy
Wanganui's mayor said Pita Sharples did not understand "any culture that is not Maori", after the Maori Party co-leader called for Wanganui residents to accept its new name.
Family rift that made Puma and adidas healed
After six decades apart, the labels' present day bosses are to bury the hatchet.