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Team USA wins Cocktail World Cup in Queenstown
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Team USA wins Cocktail World Cup in Queenstown

Team USA made not only a perfectly balanced and well executed drink but delivered a highly choreographed stage show. In keeping with the event’s theme ‘Lab Experiment’, their performance was inspired by American comic ‘The Incredible Hulk’, the ultimate scientific experiment gone wrong. In an incredibly tightly contested final, Team New Zealand took out second place with Team Great Britain coming in third.

Fashion: SHEN - 'Behind the Scenes' Doco
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Fashion: SHEN - 'Behind the Scenes' Doco

Mary-Ellen Prendergast of up-and-coming local fashion label, Shen, has an easy affinity with the Ballet. This artistic connection was explored in Shen’s SS 12/13 collection Naïve Romance and has now been fully realised through a stunning short film of the same name, featuring Royal New Zealand Ballet dancer Katherine Grange and filmed by renowned photographer, Stephen Tilley. Video courtesy PROCESS Fashion.

Miss Malawi shoves Miss NZ
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Miss Malawi shoves Miss NZ

Miss Malawi pushes Miss New Zealand Collette Kelly Lochore on stage as they fight for camera time at the Miss World pageant in China. Miss NZ organisers have made a formal complaint.

Spanish meals prepared from out-of-date food found in bins
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Spanish meals prepared from out-of-date food found in bins

In the centre of Madrid, about 30 people are enjoying open-air dining. It looks like a normal meal. But all the dishes were prepared from out-of-date food, most of it found in bins. It's one way to stop waste at a time when Spain is suffering from an economic crisis.

Rhys Darby: Dancing, lizards and the end of the world
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Rhys Darby: Dancing, lizards and the end of the world

Best known as band manager Murray from Flight of the Conchords, Rhys Darby is one of New Zealand's biggest comedic exports. The funny man popped in to the NZ Herald office for a chat about his new book, This Way to Spaceship, 'a handy autobiographical end-of-the-world companion'.

Terminally ill six-year old Ed Sheeran fan listens to 'Perfect'
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Terminally ill six-year old Ed Sheeran fan listens to 'Perfect'

Ollie Carroll, a six-year old Ed Sheeran megafan responds to 'Perfect' as he undergoes a brain infusion. Ollie is battling Battens disease, and his Aunt writes that Ollie responding to music 'lets us know that Ollie is aware of what is going on around him'. / Facebook / Ollie's Army Battling Against Battens