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| | 'Pilgrims' gained NZ entry by conning church
By BEN FAWKES
A group of missing Indians who travelled to New Zealand claiming to be on a pilgrimage are non-Christians who, as part of an immigration scam, conned Indian church leaders into believing they were devout Catholics.
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| | As you like it: A sexy census
By REBECCA PALMER
Government statisticians are grappling with a sensitive issue - quizzing people about their sexual preferences.
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Technology |
| | Te reo going live on Google
Maori will soon join Afrikaans, Zulu and even Klingon as an optional language setting on the website Google.
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| | Police likely to offer hacker a job
A teenage hacker who admitted to what the FBI call "an incredibly serious crime" could end up on the right side of the law, helping police target other hacking masterminds.
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| | iPhone not so multimedia friendly in Aust
By ANGUS DEACON
Most of the TV, movie and other multimedia content offered by Australian carriers Optus, Vodafone and Telstra over their 3G networks is not available on the iPhone.
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| | Stolen bank data gets cheaper online
Prices charged by cybercriminals selling hacked bank and credit card details have fallen sharply as the volume of data on offer has soared, forcing them to look elsewhere to boost profit margins, a new report says.
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National News |
| | Peters gives Clark donation assurance
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has given Prime Minister Helen Clark an assurance his party has not received a donation from billionaire Owen Glenn.
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| | Police likely to offer hacker a job
A teenage hacker who admitted to what the FBI call "an incredibly serious crime" could end up on the right side of the law, helping police target other hacking masterminds.
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Sport |
| | Sydney Bledisloe test tickets unsold
By GREG GROWDEN
The lure of Hong Kong, an aversion to Sydney's ANZ Stadium and apathy among the All Blacks faithful are considered the prime reasons why next week's Bledisloe Cup rugby test in Sydney is nowhere near a sell-out.
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| | Injury scare for British Open champion
By MARK LAMPORT-STOKES
Padraig Harrington's title defence at this week's British Open is in doubt with the Irishman battling to shrug off a wrist injury.
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| | Firebirds cricket contract shocks schoolboy
By SAM WORTHINGTON
New Firebird Harry Boam flies to England tonight delighted to be Wellington's first schoolboy cricket professional but dreading having to pay his parents board when he returns.
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World News |
 | Video shows crying Guantanamo inmate
Omar Khadr, the only western prisoner still held in the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, broke down and wept when questioned by Canadian interrogators and moaned "Kill me", newly-released video footage shows.
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| | Multiple bombings kill 40 in northern Iraq
Bombers killed around 40 people and wounded scores in several attacks in northern Iraq, days after the government vowed to expand a crackdown against militants in a region where al Qaeda retains influence.
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| | Russian military ammo accident kills 7
Seven soldiers were killed and another six injured in Russia's Chechen republic when a live tank shell they were loading accidentally exploded, Russian agencies reported.
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Rural |
| | Overseas appeals to Kiwi exporters
By NICK CHURCHOUSE
A quarter of exporters have ambitions to move overseas to escape rising labour costs, a high exchange rate and increasing costs in New Zealand.
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| | Farming just one of winner's jobs
By BEN FAWKES
He may have just been crowned Young Farmer of the Year, but David Skiffington admits three days of intense competition have left him feeling like an old man.
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Business |
| | Analysts split on interest rate cuts
By JAMES WEIR
The Reserve Bank could cut interest rates as soon as next week - despite inflation heading for 5 per cent - but economists say it is a close call and September may be more likely.
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| | Oil price plunges
Oil dropped more than US$9 overnight, the largest drop in dollar terms in 17 years, as growing concern about the economic health of top energy consumer the United States stirred demand worries.
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| | Power spendup put at $7b
By JAMES WEIR
The biggest spendup in the power industry for 30 years will result in about $7 billion being spent on generation and transmission lines in the next few years, Transpower chief executive Patrick Strange says.
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| | Petricevic misses $650,000 deadline
By KRIS HALL
Bankruptcy proceedings loom for Bridgecorp founder and former director Roderick Petricevic after he failed to settle a personal tax bill with the High Court at Auckland.
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Dominion Post |
| | Food prices rise 8.2pc
REBECCA PALMER
Annual food price rises have reached an 18-year high, bringing more calls to help struggling families.
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| | Bad-back man 'cooperating' (+video)
A long-term ACC beneficiary caught on video doing heavy labour while claiming for a back injury, says he is cooperating with a fraud investigation, which ACC says is "still ongoing" despite recommendations to prosecute.
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| | Ding! Next stop the wedding ceremony
ANNE CORNISH
A couple of British expatriates have scored a trio of firsts by being the first couple to get married on Wellington's cable car in what may be New Zealand's shortest marriage ceremony.
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| | 35 Indian 'pilgrims' on run in NZ
BEN FAWKES
A group of missing Indians who travelled to New Zealand claiming to be on a pilgrimage are non-Christians who, as part of an immigration scam, conned Indian church leaders into believing they were devout Catholics.
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Marlborough Express |
 | Why won't ACC prosecute him?
By PHIL KITCHIN
ACC has failed to prosecute a long-term beneficiary caught on video lifting boulders, cutting hedges and doing building work while claiming about $100,000 for a back injury he said stopped him from working.
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| | Noisy machines okay, says judge
Sophie Preece
The Environment Court has rejected a Marlborough man's bid to stop two noisy wind machines that fight frost operating near his Fairhall house.
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 | Mother hopes to save others
Roz Davenport
Michelle Merriman's day began like any other, with a kiss and a cuddle for her two baby girls. But it spiralled into a nightmare, to end with her kissing one of her "princesses" goodbye for the last time.
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Manawatu Standard |
| | Murder trial starts
By JODY O'CALLAGHAN
The man convicted of murdering gay Palmerston North man Stanley Waipouri in a "ferocious" attack will take the stand as a Crown witness in the re-trial of his co-accused and former friend Andre Gilling.
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| | Shortage sees more births in city
By JANINE RANKIN
Mums-to-be at Palmerston North Hospital had to make room for four Wanganui neighbours at the weekend who were transferred here because there was no specialist care for them at Whanganui Hospital.
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The Nelson Mail |
 | Boy's parents charged
The stepfather of a seven-year-old Stoke boy who died earlier this month has been charged with murder.
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| | Fears held for missing girl
Police hunting for a five-year-old girl abducted from her home on Auckland's North Shore on Monday say they are concerned for her safety.
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The Press |
 | Tip Top factory burns
Firefighters were this morning damping down the scene of a large blaze at the old Tip Top factory in Christchurch.
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| | Peters exits in huff as donations raised
By Dan Eaton
Foreign Minister Winston Peters, on a flying visit to Fiji to encourage a return to democracy, lashed out at journalists yesterday when his political dealings at home threatened to overshadow his delicate diplomatic mission.
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| | Mum's beating adds to suffering
By Kim Thomas
Children traumatised by seeing their mother beaten account for much of a big spike in cases of child abuse uncovered by Canterbury hospitals over the past year.
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Southland Times |
| | No plans to collapse slip
By BEN HEATHER
Tourism operators have been told if they want to bring down an unstable slip above the Shotover River they will have to do it themselves.
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Taranaki Daily News |
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| | Muldoon man's son tipped as candidate
By LYN HUMPHREYS lyn.humphreys@tnl.co.nz
The son of a Muldoon Cabinet minister of the 1970s and 80s is tipped to become New Plymouth's National Party candidate for the upcoming General Election.
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| | Man with axe attracts police
New Plymouth's armed offenders squad and extra police were rushed to Hawera after a man threatened police with a firearm last night.
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| | Strike likely to disrupt travel plans
By ROB MAETZIG rob.maetzig@tnl.co.nz
Industrial action affecting air travel through New Plymouth airport is set to get worse from Friday, when Air New Zealand Link pilots go on strike for three days.
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Timaru Herald |
 | Bus strike looms
The Timaru bus drivers' union representative will talk to them today ahead of next week's strike.
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Auckland |
 | Claims of hidden elder abuse
By JANIE SMITH
Elder abuse is in the national spotlight after the closure of an Epsom resthome, but those working on the frontline say it’s still a largely hidden problem.
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| | Debate over bar hours
By JANIE SMITH
A move to shut Auckland city’s bars early to curb violent crime has been met with mixed reactions by those in the industry.
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| | Mid-city theatre plan dropped
By JOCELYN REIN
Hopes for a new Auckland arts venue are now pinned on Q Theatre, after the Mid City cinema proposal was abandoned last week.
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 | Mum taking her boy to Olympics
By HEATHER McCRACKEN
Teenage swim star Orinoco Faamausili-Banse-Prince is taking on the world at the Beijing Olympics next month – but not without his mum.
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Central North Island |
 | Farmer hits black gold
By PHIL CAMPBELL
When you're drilling for water it's not very often you strike evolutionary gold.
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| | RDC's process draws criticism
By PHIL CAMPBELL
A proposed $2.6m super centre produced a $10m debate at the Rotorua District Council last week as the democratic process for the centre was questioned.
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| | Leading lights focus on new centre of attention
By SIMON EARLE
Strong opposition is mounting to the Rotorua District Council's customer centre with claims that it is being pushed through with scant involvement of councillors and no public consultation.
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| | Raukawa-Tait questions motive
By PHIL CAMPBELL
The motives of the people who belatedly dobbed in sports broadcaster Tony Veitch over claims he viciously assaulted his former partner have been questioned by a former forthright Women's Refuge chief.
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Hawke's Bay |
| | Shopping centre sale a `sign of the times'
MARTY SHARPE
The sale of Flaxmere's shopping centre to a Hong Kong businessman is a sign of things to come as foreign investors swoop on Kiwi bargains, says the head of the Property Council.
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 | Former DHB member cleared
MARTY SHARPE
The Serious Fraud Office has cleared former Hawke's Bay District Health Board member Peter Hausmann of any wrongdoing over the awarding of health contracts.
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| | Top bid twice hospital's estimate
MARTY SHARPE
The developer facing legal action over the purchase of the former Napier Hospital site offered to pay nearly twice the property's value, NZ First leader Winston Peters says.
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| | Quiet robbers fleece pub
Two men tied up Hawke's Bay country publican Robert DeVissier and robbed him of cash and cigarettes without saying a word.
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Northland |
 | Dragon icon rocks on home
Leaving Dargaville in an old beat-up Comer van to find fortune in the big city is a far cry from where local boy Mark Williams is now.
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 | Stock hazard on SH12
By RICHARD EDMONDSON
Someone will die on State Highway 12 if authorities don’t get tough on Hokianga farmers whose livestock wander on to roads, local residents say.
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| | No way HHO says AA
By PIP COLE
Water powered cars might be a way for the future, but not just yet says the Automobile Association.
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 | Service station staff told to stay safe
By ROBYN DOWNEY
Petrol station attendants are being warned to put their own safety first after an attempted robbery at the Dargaville Caltex Service Station.
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