May 19, 2012 10:30 am | NZ Herald
Relative unknowns one year, All Blacks the next - that is fast becoming a common path for those selected to play for the New Zealand under-20 team.The junior side is one of the great success stories of New Zealand rugby; not just...
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You might say the Warriors are the silent assassins of the NRL.Coach Brian McClennan says they are the quietest team he has ever coached - and certainly with the 2012 edition, their bite is worse than their bark.Throughout their...
A secretive russian billionaire who was allowed to buy 10ha of sensitive land on the condition he build a water bottling plant will instead construct a private winery.Mikhail Khimich abandoned plans to expand Waiwera Water after...
Mike Keefe lost his wife to breast cancer misdiagnosis and he is shocked, but not surprised, it has happened again. Jean Keefe was a fit and healthy mother-of-two when the tissue sample taken from a lump in her breast was misread.She...
In an industry sometimes despised for its superficiality, friends of world-renowned fashion photographer Craig Owen yesterday remembered a man of great depth and soul.Every seat was filled at All Saints Church in Ponsonby, Auckland,...
The beauty pageants that were once broadcast live from capacious town halls are now characterised by hired dresses and tired conference rooms. Susan Edmunds gets out the lipstick and hairspray and investigates. Twelve big-hair...
The "low maintenance" garden has ruled for the past 20 years, and fair enough too. But the result has often been a kind of prosaic greenscape with little seasonal variation.Because of our recent penchant for everything evergreen,...
A former Miss Universe New Zealand is urging young women to avoid beauty pageants.Elizabeth Aitken, then Elizabeth Gray, represented the country in the worldwide final in 2006. This week she said if she had a daughter, would never...
The intrepid Fiordland penguin who swam 3000km to Australia will have to repeat the feat if she wants to get home, with the Department of Conservation saying plans to fly her back are unnecessary.The stroppy 2-year-old penguin named...
May 18, 2012 11:42 pm | NZ Herald
Highlanders 16Bulls 11 Highlanders coach Jamie Joseph has been complaining about getting a few more grey hairs thanks to the Highlanders close games.Well, he better make an appointment with the hairdresser this week, as the H...
May 18, 2012 11:41 pm | NZ Herald
The Breakers clicked another piece of the 2012/13 jigsaw into place today with the signing of forward Leon Henry to a new two-year contract.Tall Black Henry has proven his worth to the back-to-back champions over the past two seasons,...
May 18, 2012 5:40 pm | NZ Herald
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the renowned German baritone who performed for more than five decades on stages in Berlin, Vienna, London and New York, has died. He was 86.The art songs and opera singer died at his home in the southern...
May 18, 2012 2:41 pm | NZ Herald
US President Barack Obama is using weekend gatherings of world leaders dominated by discussion of European economic woes and Afghanistan to solidify world resolve against development of an Iranian nuclear bomb and to encourage a more...
May 18, 2012 1:07 pm | NZ Herald
The jury is out in the Emily Longley murder case.Elliot Turner is accused of murdering the 17-year-old New Zealander a year ago in the south of England.He has pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice but not guilty to...
May 18, 2012 12:00 pm | NZ Herald
A break away from each other for seven years has done wonders for the spit-polished American-Scottish rockers fronted by Shirley Manson and featuring mega-producer Butch Vig on drums. And though fifth album Not Your Kind of People...
Album number 36 from the Mexican-American guitarist is an instrumental record (bar one track) dedicated to the Native American Indians in light of the Native American Apology Resolution which came into US law in 2009.So it is both...
May 18, 2012 10:45 am | NZ Herald
Relegation or the merger of two teams appear the only options as the South African Rugby Union again met with its Super 15 sides yesterday about the problem of having six contenders for five places next year.Saru held talks with...
May 18, 2012 10:30 am | NZ Herald
Canterbury Tactix 42Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic 65 The Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic continue to build momentum in the ANZ Championship, thrashing the lowly Canterbury Tactix 65-42 in Christchurch today.The Magic, traditionally...
The Blues have opened their official global search for a new head coach with an answer expected by the end of next month.Restrictions have been eased to allow any coach to apply for the role, rather than just those with recent experience...
More people are taking part in KiwiSaver compared with three years ago but more now also believe their standard of living will drop in retirement, research by KiwiSaver provider Mercer has found.The Mercer KiwiSaver Sentiment Index...
