World News

News TODAY marks a milestone: the Queen turns 90.

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News WITH a wedding to organise, New Zealand's latest millionaires are thankful for their $22.2 million Lotto windfall.

News A COLLISION between a British Airways passenger jet and a drone over London has left the plane undamaged but the aviation industry deeply shaken.

News In what could prove a hugely damaging testimony the 'child abduction expert' involved in the ill-fated snatch says he can prove Channel Nine paid him.

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News Experts say a painting found in a French attic could be worth mega-bucks.

Offbeat DETAILS have emerged in New Zealand about how an angler allegedly failed a lie detector test after reeling in a huge marlin.

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News A PASSENGER plane crashed during landing and skidded off the runway after it hit a herd of wild boars.

News THE boyfriend of an Australian woman who fell 7m to her death has denied her grieving family's allegations that he is responsible for killing her.

News NEW mum Claire Pepperell was "walking around happy as hell" after the birth of her son, Cameron. Two days later, the 27-year-old was dead.

News THE Governor-General has paid a moving tribute to Jonah Lomu, telling thousands of mourners "we will not see the likes of him again".

News THE US Geological Survey reports a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck off the coast of Chile.

Health LAST week Charlie Nicholson was like any other expectant mother, 31 weeks pregnant and preparing for the arrival of her first baby.

News A NEW Zealand family living in Sydney were considering remortgaging their home to pay for their son's university fees.

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News A MOTHER wrapped her newborn baby in towels and, with his umbilical cord still attached, left him nestled in a Nativity scene inside a New York church.

Health RICHMOND Villeran put his stomach pains down to his workouts at the gym.

News A RUSSIAN sailor ran a 7000-tonne cargo ship aground at full speed after downing half a bottle of rum, equivalent to sixteen shots.

News POP superstar Taylor Swift has angered Auckland conservationists who say her crew put a rare native bird at risk while they were filming at a west coast beach.

News AN AIRLINE passenger who unleashed racial abuse on fellow flyers, bit a policeman and made lewd gestures to an air hostess, has been jailed.

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News KIWIS locked up in a Sydney detention centre are being visited by Labour leader Andrew Little, a signal of his party's concern at Australia's tough new stance.

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News A MAN who wanted to buy a cheeseburger and a cup of tea for a young homeless woman says he was refused by McDonald's staff.