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<i>NZ stocks:</i> Market tumbles after US plunge

Craigslist 'largest prostitution source in US'

Beatles game planned as iTunes scrap continues

Today's lesson: collapse of the US

Lender cashes in on crisis he helped create

Brown urges US to take lead

<i>NZ stocks:</i> Market continues recovery

Nelson pine industries slash 60 jobs

Man denies beheading, eating bus passenger

Britney Spears finally in control of her own 'Circus'

Fashion to die for in Greenland

Greenland is a playground for the adventurous all year, writes Sarah McElrea.

AIG 'too big to fail' - but the cost is frightening

<i>Tracey Barnett</i>: Oprah's got the whole world in her arms - and hips

Teen swears by no cussing campaign

CIA destroyed videotapes of terror suspects

Bank of America says aid request 'mistake'