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ABs' emphatic blow to Gatland

OPINION: Lions kept squandering chances. That's no way to beat the All Blacks.

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Test for the ages

ABs dominate Lions video

Codie Taylor celebrates his try - the first of the match.

Visitors can't keep up, as All Blacks outclass the Lions at Eden Park.

Hansen: 'Job only half-done'

All Blacks coach lauds his captain and star wing, but calls for quick refocus.

'Trump's worst nightmare'

Enron, Watergate, the mob: Robert Mueller's cracking Russia probe team has high stakes experience to spare.

Tragedy was 'very, very wrong'

Tears and anger as Mary-Elizabeth McKee, who died in boat tragedy in Bermuda, was laid to rest.

All Blacks counting injury toll

Concern for Ben Smith and Ryan Crotty, after on-field injuries forced a mid-game reshuffle.

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national

Kitesurfer 'got into trouble'

Emergency were called to the incident on Muriwai Beach after 4pm.

Kitesurfer drowned in "strong winds and very messy surf" on a beach on Auckland's west coast.

Prime Minister joins snapchat

Snapchat users, brace yourself for pizza selfies and election campaigning.

No one took out the top prizes though nine ticket holders won the second division prize.

Lotto: No-one wins the big one

No big winners tonight, so prizes roll over to midweek draw.

Video

Carnival and carnage at festival

Queenstown's lake front was a scene of carnival and carnage as near-nude men and women fell over one another and rafts lost crew.

world

27 buildings fail fire tests video

The Chalcots estate tower building in Camden has alumium cladding. Tenants have been evacuated while the council ...

Fifteen councils across Britain affected, as residents evacuated from towers blocks in London.

Trump turns on investigator

US president suggests man leading Russia probe is biased, says "we'll have to see" if he should step down.

Rescue workers work at the site of a landslide that destroyed some 40 households, where more than 100 people are feared ...

140 feared buried in landslide

Entire Chinese village reported to have disappeared after torrential rain.

business

More play, less work

Connie Munoz of Maroubra works for a PR agency for seven months, saves all her money, and then takes unpaid leave and ...

The secret to having more holidays, tailor your life to work, not the other way round.

Aus shopper slips on grape, sues

Her right foot went backwards and she tripped forward onto her knees and elbows.

The authority said the horticultural company had to pay the hefty fine as a deterrent for other employers

Horticultural firm fined $57,000

Horticultural company failed to pay seasonal workers properly, or give them employment contracts.

technology

Old rules that explain the internet

Three rules have managed to stay useful. Appropriately, they cover irony, Nazis and porn, writes Abby Ohlheiser.

OPINION: Three rules have managed to stay useful. Appropriately, they cover irony, Nazis and porn.

Review: Sony A6500 camera

This is camera to buy if you want it to last and not be overtaken by tech advances.

The Apple HomePod is due to go on sale later this year.

The round speaker revolution

Round is all the rage - cylinder-shaped sound-makers that fire off good vibrations in all directions.

homed

Why renting is right for us stuff nation

How important is it to you that you own your home?

After decades of owning a home, I'm sick of being asked when we're buying a house and the look of shock when we say we're not.

Don't move, improve your home

Thinking of moving to something better? Try investing those moving costs into home improvement instead.

The awesome thing about building your own house is that you get to design it for how you like to live.

The Drents: Part 20

The awesome thing about building your own house is that you get to design it for how you like to live.

life & style

Positive effect of plus-size models

A recent Nike campaign featuring plus-size model Paloma Elsesser had the fitness world in a frenzy.

'There is a clear psychological advantage when the media shows more realistic body types than the traditional thin model...'

Maybelline makes it happen

Six rounds of chemo haven't held back Katie Rose Clausen's artistic talent.

Martha is big and cuddly.

World's ugliest dog named

Martha is 57 kilograms, ugly, lazy and gassy. And a world champion.

well & good

When chemo takes your tastebuds

Myself and my leprechaun friend Larry. Chemo seems to have the same impact on him.

OPINION: My mind might be watching Masterchef in 2017 in the chemo ward, but my mouth is basically re-living the 1970s.

10 questions to ask your doctor

Getting the most out of time with your doctor by asking these important question.

Gwyneth Paltrow's website Goop has removed the claims that a product they were promoting contained material used by NASA.

Goop 'stickers' raise eyebrows

Jade eggs, vaginal steaming, conscious uncoupling and now space technology stickers...

food & wine

In defence of mince

Mince -- you can't beat it.

OPINION: We may be buying more and more chicken these days, but foodies still love their mince.

Kiwi craft chocolate wins gold

Nelson chocolatiers Hogarth won top prize at the global chocolate awards in London.

Irish people taste Kiwi snacks

Sam Mannering's polenta chips

nz farmer

Teen's possum fur phone cover

Maggie Gibson with her possum fur phone cover.

Maggie Gibson made the most Kiwi smartphone accessory from a possum she shot at the family farm.

Lions led by donkeys: Peters

Winston Peters pushed all the right buttons in his play for the rural vote.

Future of farming pure fantasy

Dairy farm best in business

entertainment

Matilda: A little genius

Supplied images of the Royal Shakespeare Company's stage show of Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical, coming to Auckland in ...

Nine months in Melbourne. Every award a musical can win. Jack van Beynen finds out what makes Matilda The Musical so special.

Cruise snapped in Queenstown

Tom Cruise has been seen rugged up in chilly Queenstown alongside Mission Impossible 6 co-star Ving Rhames.

Lorde's "Green Light" was the pick of her first Glastonbury set.

Lorde slays at Glastonbury video

Ella Yelich O'Connor's debut at premier British music festival goes down a treat with crowd and critics.

travel

Empty plane seats for sale

Etihad is offering a "neighbour-free seat" option for economy-class passengers, allowing them to bid for as many as ...

Can't bear competing for the armrest with the unfriendly stranger in 26F? Now you can pay to keep them away.

Real cost of a family ski holiday

Budget and ski holiday are not natural partners, Josh Martin tries to find a happy medium for the school holidays.

Fireworks over TSS Earnslaw during the annual Winter FestivaL on Friday night.

Exploding into winter

Fireworks explode over Queenstown as thousands celebrate Southern Hemisphere's biggest winter party.

motoring

Jaguar worth $1.76m home in NZ

Essentially a D-Type racer for the road, XKSS is one of the world's rarest cars. But a little less rare now.

Rebooted XKSS in Auckland is the first to be completed of a run of just nine cars.

Biker kick starts crash video

Camera captures US motorcyclist kicking a car into a chain-reaction smash.

KLR650 has given US military and adventurers 30 years of service; new seat and revised suspension this year.

Kawasaki parties like it's 1989

The KLR650 proves they really do make 'em like they used to.

stuff nation

My family fell through the cracks stuff nation

My mother wanted to get better, she wanted to be there for her five daughters - but in the end, alcohol won.

My mother wanted to get better, she wanted to be there for her five daughters - but in the end, alcohol won.

Maori prisons an oxymoron stuff nation

There is no mana in prisons. The idea of Maori-run prisons is neither creative nor tika.

The refugees I've met are hungry for an opportunity to give back to their new countries; they want to be seen as human ...

Kiwis friendly? Not to refugees stuff nation

Dennis from accounts sits behind his keyboard asking “Why don’t they stay in their countries and fight?”. Why don't you try being a refugee, Dennis?

sport

Gatland defiant in defeat

The Lions expected to dominant up-front but found the All Blacks pack too much to handle.

Lions coach defiant in defeat, but admits he was surprised and disappointed to see his forwards dominated.

Gatland's ABs audition

Marc Hinton looks at the intriguing permutations of the Lions coach eventually becoming the All Blacks boss.

Aaron Smith was sharp in the first test.

Audacious tap all done on maths

1:16 AM  Play what you see, Steve Hansen says, so Aaron Smith did just that.

opinion

Garner: It was Winston's week

There's only winner this week – the smiling travelling salesman, Winston Peters, writes Duncan Garner.

OPINION: There's only one winner this week – the smiling travelling salesman, Winston Peters.

Party politics: Is that a draw?

Doh! Andrew Little and Bill English both had a Homer Simpson week

OPINION: A plague on all their houses is how voters might feel after a week from hell for both major party leaders.

Internet's three golden rules

Three rules have managed to stay useful. Appropriately, they cover irony, Nazis and porn, writes Abby Ohlheiser.

OPINION: Three rules have stayed useful since the dawn of the digital age. Appropriately, they cover irony, Nazis and porn.

Preventing the preventable

Christie Marceau's inquest concluded this week at the Auckland District Court.

OPINION: The one thing the Christie Marceau inquest never heard was the one thing which should be said - "sorry".

good reads

Oldest US prisoner freed at 100

John "Sonny" Franzese, centre, was sentenced to 50 years' prison in 1967 for bank robbery.

US man was serving a 50-year sentence and had been paroled at least six times before release.

US democracy on his shoulders

The US Supreme Court's swing vote, Justice Anthony Kennedy.

ANALYSIS: More than 320 million people live in the US, but democracy seems to rest with one man.

Murky politics in the deep south video

Tony Wilson, mechanic at Dipton Engineering, said many of the locals in the valley didn't bother themselves with ...

To most Kiwis, Southland's a mysterious, far-flung province. Even more obscure is its political system, which aided Todd Barclay's rise.

Behind sniper's 3.5km kill shot video

A member loyal to the Islamic State waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa, Syria, in 2014.

A Canadian sniper's record takedown caused ripples around the world. But was it really "stunning"?

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ABs or Lions? Penguins predict video

A team of Gentoo penguins (or rugbius predictus in Latin) have picked the All Blacks as Saturday night's test winners. ...

Spoiler alert: These penguins, proud in their AB colours, may have been biased ahead of the Lions game.

A running mower on his chin video

Ashrita Furman attempts to set the Guinness World Record for the farthest distance walked while balancing a powered ...

Turn the lawnmower on, balance it on your chin and walk for 71 metres. If Ashrita Furman can, so can you.

Make your own fidget spinner video

Get crafty making your own spinning gadget for hours of fun.

Embrace the spinning craze by making your own.

Chapeau, Queen Elizabeth video

You can leave your hat on, ma'am.

Top trolling, ma'am. Queen opens UK parliament with hat resembling EU flag.

Parenting

Mummy wars mask funding lack

A shocking lack of early childhood funding makes it harder for everyone.

OPINION: A shocking lack of early childhood funding makes it harder for everyone.

'You can breastfeed here'

Amie Durham was touched by the kindness a staffer at the Rolleston Warehouse showed her and her baby.

Worried she'd be hassled for breastfeeding in a store, a new mum was blown away by a worker's kindness.

When grown ups are naughty

Former All Blacks rugby player Alexander "Ali" Williams, a hero to many young people, was charged with purchasing ...

Todd Barclay tells porkies, Donald Trump bullies, Ali Williams is caught with cocaine... what kids make of high-profile bad behaviour.

More than a 'yummy mummy' video

Journalist Cat Rodie, with her children, says labels like yummy mummy and scummy mummy don't really tell you anything ...

OPINION: Whether "yummy" or "scummy", mums have had enough of being labelled.

kiwi traveller

Malaysia with the family

Take in a panoramic view of the city from the top of the Petronas Twin Towers.

Combining sightseeing, amusement parks and shopping on a stopover in Kuala Lumpur.

Readers' best travel photos

My first trip down South with a few flying mates led us to our last stop at Milford Sounds before we flew back to ...

Do you have a holiday snap that you'd like to share with the world? Send it to us and be in to win a Fujifilm camera!

Why travel boosts your job prospects

Travel doesn't just expand your horizons, it also makes you more employable, according to a new study.

OPINION: It's hard to determine your place in the world and what you want to do with your time until you have seen a fair portion of it.

Tackling the Te Araroa trail video

Matt said the most emotional part of the journey was getting his first glimpse of Bluff and the ocean beyond on Bald Hill.

Matt Dowdle ditched a traditional OE to walk over 2800km of New Zealand.

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