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Catherine Zeta-Jones has completed her treatment for bipolar II disorder.
The 'Behind the Candelabra' actor told People: "She comes home tomorrow. She's doing a really good job of getting balanced. I'm proud of her."Although the 43-year-old star's condition hasn't worsened, Catherine - who has two children with Michael, Dylan, 12, and 10-year-old Carys - opted to undergo the treatment as a "proactive" measure.In a ...
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Air New Zealand offers improved check-in with new Melbourne kiosk service
Air New Zealand customers travelling trans-Tasman and Pacific Island routes have flocked to use the new check-in kiosks introduced this week at Melbourne ...
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SFO charges seven with house sale fraud
The Serious Fraud Office has accused seven people of defrauding banks of about $9.2 million by supplying false mortgage information on properties in Auckland and Christchurch.The SFO said it had laid 48 charges against the seven Aucklanders, and it named Eli Devoy, 44, who was also known as Ellie Stone, as the primary defendant.The others are Mehrdad Ghorbani, 46, Mehran Ghorbani, 35, Nasrin ...
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Harry Styles is reportedly being romantically pursued by a host of famous women including Ke$ha and Rihanna.
The 19-year-old lothario reportedly has a host of beauties awaiting his arrival when he and One Direction visit the US next month on their 'Take Me Home' tour, and as well as Ke$ha and Rihanna Rod Stewart's daughter Kimberly is keen to see him again after they spent a night together in Los Angeles last ...
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Kiwis Aussies saw tornado shred Oklahoma
As the atmospheric conditions brewed perfectly outside Oklahoma City earlier this week to create the monster killer tornado, New Zealanders and Australians from all walks of life watched nearby in fear and awe.There were amateur storm chasers like Tauranga's Neill Ellis, Perth couple Melissa and Brayden Marshall, Brisbane's Dean Naromore who, for their holidays, travelled to ...
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Carers charged with assaults on teenager
A Taranaki teenager was burned, attacked with a dog and had a swastika drawn on his head in attacks by three people, including his carers, police ...
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Rihannas dad Ronald Fenty thinks shell get back together with Chris Brown.
Speaking to The Sun newspaper, Ronald said: "I'm still his [Chris Brown's] no.1 fan - I still like Chris regardless. They have a very passionate relationship but if they split up it does not mean it's for ever with them. In a couple of months, they'll be back together."Ronald had a brief telephone chat with his pop star offspring to make sure she was coping after ...
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Trade surplus smaller than expected
New Zealand's trade surplus in April was smaller than expected as a rise in petroleum imports more than offset increasing meat exports after farmer culled their livestock because of drought.New Zealand's export receipts outpaced imports by $157 million in April for an annual deficit of $694m, according to Statistics New Zealand.That's smaller than the monthly surplus of $475m ...
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Mila Kunis introduced Ashton Kutcher to her parents last weekend.
The morning after, Ashton, 35, decided to cook up a traditional English breakfast for his girlfriend's parents and sought the best quality ingredients - including bacon, sausages and black pudding, which is made from pigs' blood and oatmeal - for the tasty dish.A source said: "Ashton thought it would be nice to lay on a good old English fry-up. It was knocked up in one ...
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Brad Pitt doesnt have many friends.
He admitted: "I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends and I have my family and I haven't known life to be any happier."I'm making things. I just haven't known life to be any happier."The 49-year-old actor fully supported Angelina's decision to have a double mastectomy in February after learning she had an 87 per cent chance of developing ...
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High Commissioners weekly rent $7500
New Zealand's new High Commissioner in London has been put up in high-end accommodation in Kensington costing $7500 a week. Instead of moving into the official residence, a Clareville St property in the upmarket suburb of Kensington, former Speaker Lockwood Smith is staying in leased accommodation in the same suburb at a cost of £4000 British (NZ$7500) a week. The ...
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Minister welcomes Rotorua education initiative
Friday, 24 May 2013, 11:28 am Press Release: New Zealand Government Hon Hekia Parata Minister of Education 24 May 2013 Minister welcomes Rotorua education initiative Education Minister Hekia Parata and Rotorua MP Todd McClay have announced a major initiative aimed at improving the educational success of Rotorua's children and young people. Ms Parata says the new education-focused ...
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Sir Don Mckinnon Recognised For 35 Years of Service
The Rt Hon Sir Donald McKinnon ONZ GCVO - Supreme Award Sir Don McKinnon, whose life's work has involved extending the commercial and moral influence of New Zealand around the world, has been named Supreme Award winner at the 2013 World Class New Zealand Awards. Sir Don received his award from Prime Minister the Rt Hon John Key at a gala dinner in Auckland tonight. From modest ...
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Answers needed on High Commissioner’s residence
New Zealand taxpayers should be told why they are having to fork out $7500 a week to pay for alternative premises for the High Commissioner in London while the official residence remains empty, Labour's Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Phil Goff, says. "Foreign Affairs has just been savagely restructured, with staff being made redundant and allowances slashed to save ...
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SFO charges multiple suspects in mortgage fraud
Friday, 24 May 2013, 11:30 am Press Release: Serious Fraud Office Media Release24 May 2013 SFO charges multiple suspects in mortgage fraudThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has today laid 48 Crimes Act charges against a group of individuals allegedly involved in a complex series of mortgage frauds. The primary defendant is 44 year-old Eli Devoy (who now goes by the name of Ellie Stone). SFO ...
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Taking a joint approach to clean winter air
Friday, 24 May 2013, 11:14 am Press Release: Environment Canterbury Taking a joint approach to clean winter airAs winter draws near, people's attention turns both to keeping warm and to the impact this can have on South Canterbury's air quality.Around 80% of the harmful particulate PM10 comes from domestic home heating and these tiny particles are breathed into the lungs ...
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Sinister sex attack prompts police warning
A sinister attack on a teenage girl in her Northland home has police warning the public to be cautious when opening doors to strangers. Whangarei detectives are investigating the assault of a 15-year-old girl at a house in Marsden Point Rd, near Ruakaka, on Wednesday. Investigation head Detective Sergeant Shane Pilmer said a man walked down the driveway of the house, knocked on ...
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Mana candidate true man of the people
New Mana candidate for Ikaroa-Rawhiti, Te Hamua Nikora, says he is a different breed of politician who can engage young Maori with political issues and be a true man of the people. "I'm different in that I've never been a politician but I've been politically thinking my whole life. I'm different in that I dress the same, I walk the same and I talk the same as the people on the coalface," he said ...
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Weather experts predict southerly polar blast
Winter looks set to arrive on schedule as weather experts predict a southerly polar blast to ice the country early next week. Forecasters say this weekend will be wet in the north, and mild and dry in the South Island as a westerly flow brings a touch of late Autumn warmth. But before an expected dry Queen's Birthday weekend, temperatures will plummet early next week and will stay in single ...
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NZ at Noon Vandals target hospital staff
Stories making headlines today include hospital staff targeted by vandals and an outbreak of food poisoning in Whangarei. Another brazen attack on staff cars at Hawke's Bay Hospital this week has been labelled "mindless vandalism". Are New Zealand women scaring off Aussie rural bachelors? A former Masterton franchise-holder says a trade downturn and big-box retailers are forcing struggling ...
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Men charged over Chch burns death remanded in custody
Photo / File Two men charged with murdering a Christchurch man who died in hospital from serious burn injuries have been remanded in custody after appearing in court today. Terrance Martin Smith, 55, died on May 8 after receiving severe burns in an incident at a Woolston property on Anzac Day, April 25. Jason Alistor Barr, 42, of Waltham, and Shay Barry Webster, 20, of Woolston, ...
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Cleveland hero given McDonalds for life
Charles Ramsey. Photo / AP The man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for years in a Cleveland house will get free McDonald's for the next year, a company spokeswoman confirmed. Local franchisees in Charles Ramsey's neighbourhood have offered him free food at their restaurants, said Heidi Barker, a spokeswoman for Oak Brook, Ill.-based ...
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Blues skipper Williams quits Test rugby
Lock Ali Williams will retire from the international arena after 77 All Blacks Tests, but will stay on in Super Rugby with the Blues.Williams made his announcement to his 29,000 followers on his Twitter account on Friday with a message linked to a YouTube clip."Guys, just want to let you know first that I'm retiring from international rugby," he said."I'm hanging up the ...
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Kiwi fails to dip below US80c barrier
The New Zealand dollar has rebounded from an eight-month low after some traders deemed the initial response to Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's comments on a possible end to quantitative easing an over-reaction.The kiwi dollar rose to US81.38 cents on Friday morning from US80.26c at 5pm on Thursday. The trade-weighted index rebounded to 76.73 from 76.06.The kiwi fell as low as ...
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Will Smith cant swim.
Speaking on the Late Show with David Letterman in the US, Will said: "I can't swim. In inner City Philadelphia [where he grew up], there's not a lot of swimming pools and I never actually learnt how to swim and I'm embarrassed about it."I'm not scared [of the water]. I get in the water but as long as my feet can touch the bottom, I'm good because I go in, jump ...
Auckland Feature Story
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Auckland's infastructure needs upgrading in the long run.
Auckland may in the next few years be able to upgrade two major pieces of infastructure and reap the economic benefits for the city.
There may, in the near future, be a four-lane road of national significance (RONS) between Auckland and Whangarei, which would make travel between the country’s largest city and Northland much faster and more efficient, while providing significant economic benefits to both regions as well. Read more
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