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How did early Maori society develop? New research reveals a clearer timeline

When the first Polynesian settlers arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand some 750 years ago, they found an environment very ...
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Yemen’s Houthis are bringing their war to Saudi Arabia – and reframing the narrative of being an Iranian proxy

It was followed by further – albeit less deadly – missile barrages in the days since. The violence, moreover, comes just as ...
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NAZA: harrowing documentary shows how killing in Gaza became just another day’s work

NAZA, a confronting new documentary by Israeli journalists Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, exposes how killing civilians in ...
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Billy Crystal's neighbourhood resembled something out of "The Walking Dead" after the California wildfires ravaged Pacific Palisades

"It was like an episode of The Walking Dead, like this thing had just come through and wiped out everything." The When Harry Met Sally... actor recalled the terrifying moment he and Janice awoke as ...
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John Travolta has shared an emotional birthday tribute to late ex-wife Kelly Preston

The Grease legend, 72, honoured the Jerry Maguire actress on what would have been her 64th birthday with a touching video about how proud she would have been of their daughter Ella Bleu Travolta's ...
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What is Palestine Action, the group tied to novelist Sally Rooney's UK exit?

Sally Rooney, Ireland's premier voice of sad-girl fiction, can no longer sell her novels in the UK. Rooney said she was being forced to withdraw her books due to her support for the organisation ...
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Details have emerged about a triple-shooting at a Waitarere Beach property in January, near Levin

Constable David Cramp has today been honoured with the 2026 Police Bravery Award. One person died and three were critically wounded by gunshot - in the family harm incident. Cramp gave immediate first ...
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Scott Barrett has been named to start against the Wallabies in Sydney this Saturday, despite failing an initial HIA after a head knock in the first test at Eden Park

The full team is - in the forwards, Bower, Taylor, Newell, Scott Barrett, Holland, Vaa'i, Lakai, Sititi. In the backs, Roigard, McKenzie, Moorby, Jordie Barrett, Tupaea, Jordan, Beauden Barrett. On ...
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs reportedly suffered his serious prison head injury after a confrontation with a notorious Jamaican drug trafficker at the federal jail where the rapper is ...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs reportedly suffered his serious prison head injury after a confrontation with a notorious Jamaican drug trafficker at the federal jail where the rapper is servi ...
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New findings show a failing signal system led to six people being injured, when a train derailed in Wellington earlier this year

The southbound train was leaving Khandallah Station in June, when it was diverted onto a runaway line and into a large concrete stop block. A Transport Accident Investigation Commission interim report ...
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Busy Philipps has revealed how she reassured her teenage daughter she would survive a brain tumour diagnosis by promising she was not living through a film in which her mother ...

Busy Philipps has revealed how she reassured her teenage daughter she would survive a brain tumour diagnosis by promising she was not living through a film in which her mother die ...
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The Police watchdog has found officers were justified in forcing a man off a bus for disorderly behaviour in Wellington

In June 2025, Police were called to a hotel, with allegations the man was behaving aggressively. When he tried to board a bus in Naenae and wouldn't cooperate, officers tried to manhandle him off the ...