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  • Kiwi Everest climber Edmund Hillary hailed as a great Briton

    Sir Edmund Hillary - the first person ever to scale Mount Everest summit - has been called one of "those great Britons" by a conservative British newspaper. Britian's Daily Telegraph bestowed the dubious title upon Auckland-born Hillary, who conquered Mt Everest with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay about 60 years ago, Stuff.co.nz reported. The new nationality was given to Hillary in a small editorial on ...

  • Daniel Vettori set for NZ Test return this week

    New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori is set to return to action in the second Test against England this week after Bruce Martin was ruled out of the rest of the tour with a calf injury. Vettori has not played for the Black Caps for almost a year because of a hamstring injury and was left out of the squad for the two-Test series in England. But with Martin sidelined by the injury that prevented ...

  • Indian-origin men in New Zealand face gang-rape charges

    A woman has given evidence in a court in New Zealand implicating four men of Indian origin of raping her in turns in April 2011. Amir Chand, 25, Harvinder Singh, 22, Kamaljeet Singh, 27, and Sumit Vermani, 26, are defending the charges in the high court in Hamilton, Fairfax NZ News reported Tuesday. The woman has claimed that the four men raped her in the course of an evening during the ...

  • Ian Bell to recover in time for second test against New Zealand

    England middle order batsman Ian Bell is expected to recover from tonsillitis and play against New Zealand in the second test match starting from Friday. Bell's illness got him a score of 31 runs for 133 balls during the second innings at Lord's, and England's medical team is confident that there will not be a relapse this time. The Independent reports that once Bell is fit, there won't be any ...

  • New Audi A3 Launch Backed By Well Known New Zealanders

    Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 1:58 pm Press Release: Audi New Audi A3 Launch Backed By Well Known New Zealanders22 May 2013To launch the coveted new Audi A3 Sportback, Audi New Zealand is giving consumers the chance to indulge their passion for adventure and win a rare 'money can't buy' experience with three well-known New Zealanders through a month-long promotion launching ...

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Opera [DVD]

Opera [DVD]

Dario Argento, one of the most influential and creative horror directors of the last 25 years, often complained that viewers would shut their eyes during the goriest parts of his films. As most of his stories revolve around psychopathic masked killers, there are plenty of gory sights to close out with one's eyelids in such Argento classics as Deep Red (Profondo Rosso) (1975), Sus ... ...

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  • Who are the Real Terrorists

    Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 2:14 pm Press Release: Mana Party Hone HarawiraMANA Leader and MP for Te Tai Tokerau22nd May 2013Who are the Real Terrorists?"Today's release of the Independent Police Complaints Authority Report into the Tuhoe Raids of 2007 have identified one fact; that the real terrorists that day were the Police, not Tuhoe" says MANA Leader and MP for Te Tai ...

  • IPCA recommendations must be fully implemented

    Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 1:31 pm Press Release: New Zealand Labour Party Kris FaafoiPolice Spokesperson22 May 2013IPCA recommendations must be fully implementedThe recommendations made by the Independent Police Conduct Authority after its investigation into Operation Eight must be fully implemented and reported back to the Government and Tuhoe people, says Labour's Police ...

  • Police ‘Get Away’ With Actions That Were Contrary To Law

    Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 2:00 pm Press Release: The Maori Party Te Ururoa FlavellMP for Waiariki22nd May 2013Police 'Get Away' With Actions That Were 'Contrary To Law, Unjustified and Unreasonable'"It's a weird day in a democracy when a report into Operation Eight identifies police actions that were 'contrary to law, unjustified and unreasonable' ...

  • Crash driver sought by Police arrested

    Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 2:37 pm Press Release: New Zealand Police Crash driver sought by Police arrestedChristchurch Police have arrested the man they were seeking in relation to a crash at Leeston earlier this month.Joel Allan Linwood, aged 23, was arrested without incident at a Hornby address shortly before 10.00 this morning [Wednesday 22 May].He will appear in Christchurch District ...

  • Air New Zealand StandTall help South Auckland Kids

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