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NZ market starts week in negative territory

NZ market lower on China's tighter monetary policy

Michael Buble gets engaged

Michael Buble is getting married to his girlfriend Luisiana Loreley Lopilato de la Torre, it has been revealed.

Motorsport: Dakar - driving support

Aussie share market closes flat

Brazil signs on to cut emissions

Chinese pair bid for mining rights

Soccer: All Whites to play Mexico

Allied Farmers shares fall in day of contrasts

Are we scraping the bottom of the oil barrel?

Strong Tower leads NZ market higher

Galapagos Islands: Where the wild things are

Jim Eagles gets up close and personal with the incredible array of fauna on the isolated Galapagos Islands.

Galapagos Islands: Showing no fear

In the Galapagos you can walk as close as you like to the local sea lions and they simply don't react.

Galapagos Islands: Cleaning up their act

To combat the effects of tourism, the Ecuadorean Government has brought in increasingly strict controls on both the tourist industry and life on the Galapagos Islands.

NZ market rises as other markets falter

All Blacks: Top side to play England

Soldiers handed back

John Key meets Obama in Singapore

John Key had "quite a fruitful" discussion with US president Barack Obama during the official Apec leaders' dinner last night, and also breakfasted with him today, writes John Armstrong.