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  • Exhausted Vettori faces black cloud over Test future after Leeds Test pull out

    According to the New Zealand media, master spinner Daniel Vettori has a black cloud hovering over his Test-playing future after he pulled out of the second test against England at Leeds, fearing that his body cannot cope with the strenuous exertion in the five days that will follow. According to Stuff.co.nz, although the former captain was poised to overtake Stephen Fleming for a record 112th ...

  • Ryder makes low-key gym comeback away from prying eyes following bar assault

    New Zealand cricketer Jesse Ryder has reportedly made a comeback to the gym, days after he was attacked outside a Christchurch bar that left him in a coma for two days, although he is keeping the process very low key. According to Stuff.co.nz, Ryder has been seen coming and going from Exodus gym in Wellington, although sources said that he is careful to keep himself from working out too hard, ...

  • BlackBerry in NZ comeback bid with Z10 backed by Telecom Vodafone

    BlackBerry is making a comeback bid in the NZ market, with a launch for its iPhone-like Z10 on June 4. Telecom and Vodafone tell NBR they will carry the Z10. The more convention Q10 - which has a more traditional BlackBerry designed incorporating a hard keypad - is still being assessed. 2degrees has never supported BlackBerry servers, which are needed to take full advantage of the ...

  • Man slashed in glass attack

    Police said the group had drunk too much alcohol before a fight broke out between a few of them. Photo / File A man's ear was torn in half and his face and neck were slashed when he was attacked with a glass at a Coromandel pub early this morning. The 23-year-old man was part of a group from Pukekohe who had been on a social club outing at the Tui Lodge in Coromandel ...

  • Freezing weather on the way

    Photo / Paul Taylor Freezing weather is due to hit the South Island and parts of the North Island, WeatherWatch warns. Snow is due to fall to low levels in Southland and Otago today and tomorrow, which will see temperatures plummet, analyst Richard Green said. "It'll be close to the freezing mark for some places in the south tomorrow and Tuesday." "Icy winds combined with ...

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Dancer in the Dark [DVD]

Dancer in the Dark [DVD]

After its premier at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, where it eventually won the coveted Palm d'or, Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark was met equally with intense celebratory applause and boos of vociferous condemnation. It has since divided audiences and critics straight down the middle: either you love it or you hate it. Von Trier is either a boundary-pushing genius or he is a ego-m ... ...

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  • Freezing weather on the way

    Freezing weather is due to hit the South Island and parts of the North Island, WeatherWatch warns. Snow is due to fall to low levels in Southland and Otago today and tomorrow, which will see temperatures plummet, analyst Richard Green said. "It'll be close to the freezing mark for some places in the south tomorrow and Tuesday. ""Icy winds combined with sleety snow showers will make roads ...

  • Election between centre right and far left - Key

    John Key. Photo / Greg Bowker National is facing the "notoriously difficult" task of winning a third term against an Opposition increasingly dragged to the "far left" by the Greens, Prime Minister John Key says. Addressing an enthusiastic audience about 350 party faithful in Auckland today Mr Key said it was "always difficult to win a third term". ...

  • Child Poverty Action Group heads back to Court

    CPAG's challenge to the In Work Tax Credit under the Human Rights Act heads to the Court of Appeal on Tuesday 28th May.Assoc. Professor Susan St John CPAG's economics spokesperson says "CPAG's case was first heard in the Human Rights Review Tribunal in 2008. We are seeking a declaration from the Court of Appeal that the In Work Tax Credit discriminates against the ...

  • One dead one hurt in motorbike collision

    Police name north Canterbury crash victim One man is dead and another seriously injured following a collision between two motocross bikes on a remote rural road in North Canterbury late last night. The deceased has been named as Craig Gordon Pickering, aged 21, a dairy farmer from Balmoral. Police say Pickering was the rider of a motorcycle which collided head-on with another motorcycle on ...

  • One dead in head-on crash

    File Photo / Thinkstock One motocross rider has died after colliding head-on at speed with another rider on a dark shingle road, after they had left a party in North Canterbury last night. Neither man was wearing a helmet and the bikes had no lights on them, police said. The crash happened in a remote rural area on Cascade Road, Balmoral, near Culverden about 9.45pm. The man who died was ...

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