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Team NZ's winning formula video

3:52 PM  VMG. They are the three letters proving the difference for the Kiwi boat in the America's Cup.

90,000 jobless youth video

Kyle Goldman, 24, has been struggling to find employment since 2015.

12 min ago  Every morning, Kyle Goldman logs on to job seeking sites, hoping to change his predicament. He's not alone.

Overdosed in surgery

4:42 PM  Anaesthetist gave too much morphine to a patient after grabbing the wrong syringe.

The fabulous Barrett brothers video

4:58 PM  First trio of siblings to make the ABs met the media collectively, and didn't disappoint.

Residents fight development

Contractors arrive at a Tauranga site to find a blockade manned by angry neighbours.

Thieves target rescue boat

4:26 PM  Burglary of life-saving equipment from coastguard's rescue boat put them out of action.

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national

Shock car-chalet crash video

Murray Luke was surprised the driver of the car was able to walk away from the crash.

Two Auckland holidaymakers thought a tree must have collapsed. Then they discovered the car.

Crime spree confession

Douglas Roake's robbery spree ended on a night when a mother and daughter took him on.

Emergency services arrived to find an explosion from a rubbish fire and a patient with severe burns.

Severe burns in explosion

4:14 PM  Emergency services arrive to find explosion from rubbish fire and a person with severe burns.

Video

Manufacturing facing skills shortage

Manufacturers want young people to know that the rise of robots makes it a 'cool' industry to work in.

world

Disaster we don't hear of video

Abdullahi Mohamud, 5, cries next to his mother Sahro Mohamed Mumin, 30, and brother, Abdulrahman Mahamud, 2, as a nurse ...

 Where are the Bob Geldofs and the Bonos as up to 23 million people face the risk of starvation in Africa?

One house, in two countries

For sale: A 1782 fixer-upper where you can enter via the US and come out in Canada.

About 80 per cent of mainstream press coverage reflected negatively on the new president in his first 100 days.

Is Trump news too negative? video

OPINION: The US president's press coverage has been a political nightmare. Isn't that terribly unfair?

business

Next for Cadbury campaign?

A Dunedin group has a plan to keep production of Pineapple Lumps, Jaffas, Buzz Bars and Pinky bars local.

3:58 PM  Having raised nearly $5m in a week to keep iconic Cadbury products in NZ, it's time for the next step.

Fuji Xerox $285m hole widens

Review of accounting practices at Fuji Xerox NZ drags in the Australian business as the loss deepens.

The way Ardent announced the news seemed a cynical ploy by a company that took many missteps after the Dreamworld tragedy.

Big payday for Ardent CEO

Dreamworld's owner chose 5.18pm the Friday before a long weekend to announce the abrupt end of Deborah Thomas's reign.

technology

Sometimes computers are dumb

Facebook has said a priority for this year is offering people information they don't know they were interested in.

Even tech companies that preach the gospel of the algorithm are turning to humans for recommendations.

Homer thwarts DeepMind

One of the world's most advanced computer programs couldn't compute the character's fumbling antics.

The Xbox One X will be released on November 7, at a likely price of $749

Xbox One X: 'It's a monster'

Microsoft kicked off E3 2017 by unveiling the the world's most powerful console and 42 new games.

homed

Don't give homeware gifts

Giving homewares as a gift is risky - just ask the woman who ended up swamped with chook-wares she hated.

11 min ago  OPINION: As the woman drowning in chook-themed homewares will attest, homewares are a high-risk gift.

Kiwi dream? No thanks gallery

Meet the new generation who don't want the quarter-acre section – or the house that goes with it.

Andrew and Amanda Norwood with their son, Oscar.

It may be small but it works gallery video

"I can't live in it," he said when he first saw it. But this Auckland couple has turned a tiny cottage into a cosy home.

life & style

'Is the heartbeat going to be there?'

Megan Gale: "Before every scan it was, 'Is the heartbeat going to be there?' 'Am I going to get that bad news again?'"

9 min ago  Following a miscarriage in April 2016, a pregnant Megan Gale speaks out about the effect that trauma still has on her a year on.

Jessica Chastain ties the knot video

4:51 PM  The 40-year-old actress and her Italian fashion executive beau said "I do" in Italy over the weekend.

Puffer jackets popped up everywhere at fashion shows this year, both on the runways and outside the events. (L-R) A ...

How to look stylish in a puffer

4:34 PM  Formerly known as a fashion crime, puffer jackets are now having a moment.

well & good

Is cheese really addictive?

Cheese's potential to be addictive comes from the fact that it contains casomorphins, opiate-like substances derived ...

What's fattening, addictive and really bad for you? It's not sugar this time, but cheese – at least according to one expert.

Fergie wished she was bulimic

Sarah Ferguson has opened up about her battles with an eating disorder during her marriage to Prince Andrew. 

Designed to weigh around 10 per cent of your own body weight, weighted blankets can reduce your anxiety levels and ...

Do weighted blankets work?

Designed to weigh around 10 per cent of your body weight, can weighted blankets really help with anxiety and better sleep?

food & wine

Creator of Hawaiian pizza dies

Sam Panopoulos invented the Hawaiian pizza in 1962.

For 55 years, Sam Panopoulos' bold move to chuck pineapple on a pizza has divided diners.

How do pricey tea bags taste?

Go with your preference and your budget and enjoy the benefits that a good cuppa can bring.

Raw walnut and date cubes

Slow-cooked lamb with spuds

nz farmer

Nine per cent less wine

Flooding in a Marlborough vineyard in May, fortunately after the harvest.

4:53 PM  Bad news winos, the lack of grapes harvested in NZ this year might hurt.

Palm kernel changes on horizon

Farmers have a year to adjust their systems before Fonterra penalises them for overusing it.

Humble scientist finds fame

Threat to NZ dairy

entertainment

No new Mary Poppins for Julie

Dame Julie Andrews, when she was in Auckland five years ago.

The original Mary Poppins Julie Andrews says Emily Blunt is the reason for the no-show.

Taylor's swift timing suspect

OPINION: Taylor pulls a swifty - but is it a move made in Bad Blood?

The wheels have come off for Katy Perry.

Where did Katy go wrong?

She used to Roar and go off like a Firework. Now they're calling Ms P's latest a "messy, monumental misfire".

travel

7 days in enchanting Ireland

Donegal's bewildering beauty.

We're on a seven-day 1100km road trip from Dublin to drive and hike some spectacular craggy coastline.

The world's oldest restaurant

Hundreds of eateries close within a year, this one has been open since 1725.

The so-called winglets would each measure as much as five metres.

Superjumbo may get bigger

Airbus's A380 could sprout extended wings with winglets up to five metres long.

motoring

VW Trixie's electric trick

Carl Penwarden who has converted his 1965 VW Beetle into an electric vehicle.

It looks like a 52-year-old Volkswagen but electric power means it doesn't sound like one.

'The Exorcist' Camaro gallery video

It's an ominous image of a muscle car in black, and a driver with crossed wrenches.

A Mazda 808 by any other name is a Kia Brisa II. Apparently.

Kia really did build these cars

In early days, Kia got by with a lot of help from automotive friends.

stuff nation

Lake Tekapo showing off

Easterly conditions settling on the hills in the Tekapo Saddle area.

George Empson captured these images in the Lake Tekapo area.

Bernie, the burmese

Bernie, left, and Bonnie like snuggling while they pretend to do the washing.

"I'm pretty lucky to be a dog mum to these beautiful little fur balls, I just can't imagine life without them."

The posing pomeranians

4:09 PM  "I'm pretty lucky to be a dog mum to these beautiful little fur balls, I just can't imagine life without them."

sport

The win that changed rugby

Otago's Marc Ellis and John Leslie (C) combine to stop Lions captain Gavin Hastings in Otago's epic 37-24 win in 1993.

Otago players reflect on the day they showed the Lions, and the world, how to play running rugby.

QLD's Origin game two team

4:12 PM  Slater and Thurston are back for the Maroons - but Thaiday and Oate are gone in a dramatic reshuffle.

Conor Murray's box kicks pinned the Crusaders back in Christchurch.

Murray 'best No 9 in the world'

Former ABs and Lions coach Graham Henry heaps praise on halfback after display against Crusaders.

opinion

Is Trump coverage too negative? video

About 80 per cent of mainstream press coverage reflected negatively on the new president in his first 100 days.

OPINION: The US president's press coverage has been a political nightmare. Isn't that terribly unfair?

Taylor's swift timing suspect

Taylor Swift announced she was releasing all her music on Spotify at exactly the same time Katy Perry's new album dropped.

OPINION: Taylor pulls a swifty - but is it a move made in Bad Blood?

How big a star is Venus?

Michael Venus is now a Grand Slam champion after winning the French Open men's doubles with Ryan Harrison.

OPINION: Michael Venus is New Zealand's first Grand Slam champ since 1979. Is that a big deal?

Enough Tinder harassment 

If someone approached you in a bar and said obscene, explicit things to you, that would be considered sexual harassment. ...

OPINION: If a guy shouted sexually explicit things at a woman in a bar, you'd be appalled. So why's it different online?

good reads

Famous Otago win changed rugby

Otago's Marc Ellis and John Leslie (C) combine to stop Lions captain Gavin Hastings in Otago's epic 37-24 win in 1993.

Otago players reflect on the day they showed the Lions, and the world, how to play running rugby.

Still fighting after seven strokes

Sam Goddard before his series of strokes in 2010.

Hit by a devastating series of strokes at just 23, Sam's determination has amazed his family in Australia.

7 days in enchanting Ireland

Donegal's bewildering beauty.

We're on a seven-day 1100km road trip from Dublin to drive and hike some spectacular craggy coastline.

The catastrophe we don't know video

Abdullahi Mohamud, 5, cries next to his mother Sahro Mohamed Mumin, 30, and brother, Abdulrahman Mahamud, 2, as a nurse ...

 Where are the Bob Geldofs and the Bonos as up to 23 million people face the risk of starvation in Africa?

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A messy council business

The Stratford District Council agreed to stand Kelly down after an investigation found he had breached confidentiality.

More details have emerged in Stratford's hair-raising council scandal.

One house, in two countries

The house, seen here on Google Streetview, straddles the international border and is opposite the border patrol station.

For sale: A 1782 fixer-upper where you can enter via the US and come out in Canada.

Hedgehog 'blown up like a beach ball'

The hedgehog was twice its usual size when rescued.

It had inflated to twice its usual size and was wandering in circles in the UK.

Not-so-grey hounds gallery

Greyhounds and their owners were out in force on Wellington's waterfront as part of the Great Global Greyhound Walk to ...

Wellington's greyhounds get all dressed up for the Great Global Greyhound Walk.

Parenting

'Fur babies' are real babies, too

Nadine Higgens and her "fur baby", Rico, a three and a half-year-old german shepard.

OPINION: To anyone uptight enough to be offended by the phrase 'fur babies' – get a grip. Or better yet, get a dog.

Dads treat kids differently video

Fathers are more likely to sing to their daughters and play rough with their sons at key development ages.

Fathers are more likely to sing to their daughters and play rough with their sons at key development ages.

Chores holding women back

Are women bearing the burden of carrying the 'mental load'?

Women are default household managers - we look at the "invisible workload" holding them back.

Sadness drives surrogate search

Sharon and Chris Owen are now searching nationwide to find a surrogate for their next child.

They lost their "miracle child" at 20 months after 10 years of trying. Now they're asking for NZ's help.

kiwi traveller

Monks' food and amazing coffee in Japan

Don't just come to Japan for the scenery.

There are culinary adventures aplenty in Japan's current and former capital.   

Returning to NZ after 5 years

Ebba and her new van, Rosie.

Swedish ski instructor Ebba Beattie loved her short time in New Zealand so much that she's back for more.

Getting to the heart of Sri Lanka

Footsteps on sunny beach near Mirissa, Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is becoming increasingly popular with Kiwi tourists.

Readers' travel photos of the week

While hiking at Franz Josef Glacier early in the morning of Feb 2011, a cheeky and nosy kea strayed into my looking for ...

Do you have a holiday snap that you'd like to share with the world? 

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