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PM backs parade for All White 'champions'
John Key has ruled out a holiday, but is keen on a parade to welcome the All Whites home as champions.
All Whites: What the Paraguayans think
Paraguay are planning special tactics to cope with an anticipated aerial bombardment, in tomorrow morning's sudden-death World Cup group F clash.
Depp halts <i>Pirates</i> for World Cup
Tight filming schedules won't stop Johnny Depp from watching World Cup matches during the shooting of the latest Pirates installment.
Bolivia: An otherworldly wander
The vast salt plains and eerie beauty of south-western Bolivia are a transporting experience, writes Derek Cheng.
Bolivia: Boning up on history
There were no locked doors, no guards, no security cameras. There was barely even a doorway.
'World's finest opera house' reopens after four years
The Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is reputed to have the world's finest acoustics.
Tribe wins fight to have blood samples returned
US universities want legal protection before returning specimens to Amazonian villagers.
Bolivia: Riding the Death Road
Kate Chapman takes on the old route between Bolivia's capital La Paz and the popular weekend getaway of Coroico.
Is that a candle - or a consignment of cocaine?
Cocaine smugglers are literally turning the drug into innocent-looking plasticware and candles - the latest trick to fool customs officers.