It wasn't all good news however after it was revealed the Ferns would take home no official prize money.
The href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/premium/news/article.cfm?c_id=1504669&objectid=12161330" target="_blank">three-way struggle over land at Ihumātao has dominated the headlines in New Zealand this week. While internationally it's been all about Britain's new PM Boris Johnson and Robert Mueller's testimony before US Congress.
In amongst all this has been an array of other great content from around the globe. So take some time this weekend to catch up on some of the great journalism from our premium international syndicators.
The ascension of a new prime minister in Britain has raised both fears and hopes (depending on the audience) that the country might leave the European Union cold turkey.
Theresa May's successor, Boris Johnson, insists that while he intends to hammer out a better agreement, Britain will leave the union by that deadline - even if that means exiting without a deal.
What will Brexit look like under Britain's New Prime Minister Boris Johnson? Photo / AP
Neil Armstrong's death, and a stormy, secret $9 million settlement
When Neil Armstrong died in hospital two weeks after undergoing heart surgery in 2012, his family released a touching tribute addressing the astronaut's millions of admirers around the globe.
But in private the family's reaction to his death was far stormier. His two sons contended that incompetent post-surgical treatment had cost Armstrong his life.
Sudan's 'woman in white' on why she's prepared to die
"We all have to die at some point, so it's better to die defending the cause. Other people have died for the cause."
From most 22-year-olds such a statement might sound pretentious, ridiculous even. But not from Alaa Salah.
In April, a photograph of a young woman in Khartoum protesting against the dictatorship in Sudan went viral. Overnight, a 22-year-old university student became a symbol of oppression.
Alaa Salah became a symbol of oppression in Sudan after a photo of her went viral. Photo / Alaa Salah Twitter
The streaming market is heading for saturation
There are tremors rippling through the world of video on demand.
Expenditure on original content, already in the billions of dollars, will only grow as Netflix and others battle to keep customers paying their monthly dues.
Netflix, the dominant service, faces a serious challenge from the wealth of options now opening up for their viewers.
Netflix's The Crown. The streaming service faces a challenge from the wealth of options opening up for their viewers. Photo / Supplied
Who cancels lunch with Warren Buffet?
Everybody knew where Justin Sun, a brash Chinese millionaire and cryptocurrency celebrity, was going to be this week. He had paid a record $6.8 million to have a charity lunch with Warren Buffett, the investing guru, in San Francisco, and he was counting down the days on social media.
Then Sun, citing ill health, postponed the lunch three days before it was to happen, sending the Chinese media and internet into overdrive.
The reports, while sounding as though they had been ripped from the pages of an overwrought thriller, were not without precedent.
As Chinese authorities take an increasingly heavy-handed approach to policing the business and financial worlds, executives have been known to disappear for months and even years.
Justin Sun, a wealthy cryptocurrency entrepreneur, was to have lunch with the investing guru Warren Buffett in San Francisco this week, but delayed the event several days beforehand. Photo / Getty
The rise of the Spice Girls generation
Members of the Spice Girls generation are the only people in history to have both grown up with the internet and retained childhood memories that predated it.
Born primarily in the mid-to-late 1980s, they are human bridges between two eras, whose anachronistic birth years, with their faraway century, will cause their heirs' eyes to widen at their obituaries.
Fans of the Spice Girls wear masks in the likeness of the group's members outside the band's latest reunion tour at Wembley Stadium in London. Photo / Alexander Coggin, The New York Times
Sextortion: How young men are falling victim to a new kind of online blackmail
It starts innocently enough: boy meets girl online. She has honey-brown hair and a sweet smile. Her name is Audrey. She looks just a little older than Tom, who is just 16.
At first, they connect with idle chat, then, over a couple of hours, it grows into more than that. She wants to video chat and things get a little steamy.
The next time Audrey messages him it is with a list of Tom's Facebook contacts and a link to YouTube, where she says she will publish the video unless he pays her thousands of dollars.
Young men are being targeted by blackmailers over sexually explicit videos. Photo / 123RF
Why pop culture still can't get enough of Charles Manson
The Manson case had a touch of evil to it — in fact, more than a touch; it was, in many minds, a post-apocalyptic deluge. It exposed how defenceless the folk-rock stars, the movie stars, the producer stars, the drug stars, the limo driver stars and thousands of would-be and wannabe stars were in their pretend fortresses up in the hills of Los Angeles and Malibu.
Charles Manson's hippie followers went on a killing spree in the hills around Hollywood in 1969. Things changed quickly in Los Angeles after that. Photo / Getty Images
Forget Donald Trump, Boris Johnson is the new king of silly style
On the world stage there are few national leaders who can compete with President Donald Trump in the indelible image-making sweepstakes of the new social media order.
With his tangerine skin and white-circled sun-bed-goggle eyes, his candy-floss blonde comb-over and too-long bright red ties and blowzy Brioni suits, he is a cartoon of a politician straight out of late-night TV: risible and seared into your retinas at the same time. It's funny, until you realise it's also unforgettable.
It's possible that only Kim Jong Un, with his Mao suits and flattop bouffant, has reached the same level of absurd, yet effective, self-caricature.
