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'We're getting overrun': DoC manager pleads for poison to stop wild dogs
Feral dogs are living in remote NZ bush, putting trampers at risk of attacks.
How women talking dirty became big business
Times: Content about sex, by women, featuring women and for women is booming.
Claire Trevett: Silencing of Shane Jones an easy first test of coalition discipline steps
Shane Jones has been quietened - but a few in National quietly agree with his views.
Michael Keaton: Beetlejuice star reflects on his years in Hollywood
NYT: The actor returns to Beetlejuice with years or ups and down and an Oscar nomination.
Trump family’s $1.6 billion Albania projects spark land disputes
NYT: Locals questioning how Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump got land development rights.
How Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s unlikely partnership took shape
New York Times: Inside the secret talks that led to Trump and Kennedy Jr. teaming up.
Du Val downfall: From champagne, private jets to receivership and $250m debt
Now Du Val investors and creditors want their money.
Inside the 10-year police probe to bring down Wayne Doyle and the Head Hunters
Special report: Inside the labyrinthine case which led to $15m forfeiture this week.
A father’s search for a son who didn’t want to be found
New York Times: A father's desperate search for missing son ends in bittersweet reunion.
Gregor Paul: How was MacDonald, Robertson partnership ever sanctioned by NZR?
OPINION: This story needs greater scrutiny.
'We had to do it together': Why it took decades to make Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
New York Times: The stars and director look back on the ghost comedy and its afterlife.
'No place to live': Essential workers in Ibiza forced to live in tents
New York Times: As tourism soars, Ibiza's housing crisis deepens.
Inside story: When police took down the Comanchero hierarchy
Exclusive book extract on how detectives investigated the Comancheros motorcycle gang.
Doctors saved her life. She didn’t want them to
New York Times: A DNR violation’s devastating impact.
Rugby and robbery: The untold story of a journalist's brush with death in South Africa
The latest fascinating chapter in a 103-year arm wrestle awaits.
From rural marae to New York to Cabinet: Tama Potaka’s path to politics
Tama Potaka on where he stands on certain issues.
Winter weekend watch list: The 100 greatest movies of all time
Telegraph: Comedy, drama, romance, horror, sci-fi - film critic Robbie Collin's top picks.
The DeLorean ruined its creator’s life. Now it’s coming back (to the future)
Times: Kat DeLorean aims to revive the iconic car and clear her father's tarnished name.
‘There is no childhood in Gaza’: The devastating toll on children caught in Israeli attacks
New York Times: "Gaza remains the most dangerous place for children."
Talulah Riley on Elon Musk: ‘I can’t be unbiased. I loved/love him’
Times: The actress discusses marrying Musk, twice, and urging him to buy Twitter.
Surviving child stardom: Haley Joel Osment’s journey through Hollywood
New York Times: The Sixth Sense star has found a balance that has eluded some child stars.
The 47 seconds that saved Kamala Harris’ political career
NYT: 'As close to a near-death experience for a political career as you can get.'
Behind the pageantry of Shen Yun: Dancers reveals emotional abuse, injuries and exploitation
NYT: Shen Yun leaders accused of exploiting young dancers to spread Falun Gong message.
Special investigation: Apology after autistic mum's baby taken - but it's too late to get him back
The mother involved speaks to the Herald, in her first interview.
How Post Malone went country (carefully, with a beer in his hand)
New York Times: Post Malone's genre-blending journey continues with latest music.
He still thought he could win: Inside Biden’s decision to drop out
New York Times: People close to Biden say he believes he could have won a second term.
The Blair Witch Project at 25: The film that blurred reality and fiction
New York Times: Did audiences really believe The Blair Witch Project was real?
How to write truly hot, non-cringey sex scenes (and 9 books that get it right)
Times: Author Kate Weinberg searches for the secret of really good sex – on the page.
Moon Unit Zappa: ‘I was a social experiment for my parents’
Frank Zappa’s daughter tells some home truths about life as the child of a rock star.
Why John Mulaney is conspicuously absent from Anna Marie Tendler's memoir
Times: Memoir details stay in psychiatric hospital after famous comedian husband left her.
The Klitschkos: ‘If we fail in Ukraine, you’re going to be next’
Times: Legendary boxers, turned political heavyweights, in the fight of their lives.
Inside the worst three weeks of Donald Trump's 2024 campaign
New York Times: People around Trump see a candidate knocked off his bearings.
'I’m on my way out': Suffering patients say right-to-die law still doesn't help them
The family of a woman who was declined for assisted dying say the law is 'ridiculous'.
'A cruel hoax': How a minister, a property mogul, a ‘good bloke’, and the pandemic combined to resolve a 170-year injustice
Some of a Wānaka forest with popular trails can now become 150 homes on prime real estate
How an Instagram-perfect life in the Hamptons ended in tragedy
NYT: They showed the world an unrestrained display of wealth. The money didn't exist.
‘Who will protect us?’: The Yazidis’ dangerous journey home
Times: A decade after Isis attempted to exterminate them, they're being made to return.
From farm boy to VP candidate: Tim Walz’s extraordinarily ordinary life
New York Times: He hasn't spent his life striving for this moment. So how did he get here?
How the 9/11 plea deal came undone
New York Times: Two decisions have stunned victims' families.
To become the GOAT, Simone Biles first had to be a turtle
New York Times: The gymnast sealed her legacy with four medals at the Paris Games.
Emily in Paris' 61yo star on escapism, skimpy outfits and scaring men
Times: Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu's role as tough PR boss Sylvie has won her many new fans.
‘She’s a born racer’: Behind the game face taking Ellesse Andrews towards gold
The Kiwi cyclist explains the relentless mentality she hopes will bring victory in Paris.
Audrey Young: Cabinet report card - the ministers thriving and those just surviving
OPINION: This minister wasn’t ready when a crisis struck - and scores just 3 out of 10.
High-stakes diplomacy: Inside the deal that led to a blockbuster US-Russia prisoner swap
Months of complex negotiations resulted in the largest prisoner exchange since thCold War.
Who was freed in the prisoner swap between Russia and the West?
New York Times: A list of the 24 prisoners who were exchanged and their backgrounds.
Secret bidding war: How the All Blacks ditched Nike for Adidas – twice
The inside story of how a $50 million rugby apparel deal was won.
Olympic surfing comes to a ‘poisoned’ paradise
New York Times: The Olympic surfing event is shadowed by a nuclear leagacy.
Stalkers, disease and doubt: A gymnast's hard road back to the Olympics
New York Times: 'It was so scary. I didn’t know it then, but the old Suni was gone.'