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News NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister John Key has said Kiwis being detained on Christmas Island do not have to stay there.

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News INDONESIA'S anti-drugs agency has proposed building a jail on an island guarded by crocodiles to hold death-row drug convicts.

Business A KIWI whizz-kid has bought up another tertiary tutoring business and drawn the attention of New York billionaires as he cast his eyes further afield.

News A YOUNG Auckland real estate agent described as a "precious soul" has died in a fall at home.

News A STUDENT who stabbed and wounded five people on the campus of the University of California at Merced has been shot and killed by police.

Celebrity ROBIN Williams' widow Susan Schneider believes he killed himself because he was suffering from Lewy Body Dementia rather than depression.

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News YOU are in central London and you've just won the World Cup and cleaned up at the World Rugby Awards: where do you go to celebrate?

Offbeat CCTV cameras in a 'haunted' supermarket have captured a 'poltergeist' hurtling food off the shelves and rattling doors in the middle of the night.

News A LESBIAN couple who told to 'take it somewhere else' while kissing has filed a lawsuit, accusing a Honolulu police officer of assault and battery,

News A HUSBAND who accidentally ran over his wife twice had only months before confessed to being blackmailed over an affair with another woman, an inquest heard

News MORE than 200 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck north-east Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, sending shock waves as far as New De

Offbeat WOULD you like a cat with your coffee? A feline loving lawyer has plans for mixing moggies with mochas in a new cat cafe in New Zealand.

News A HUNGARIAN camerawoman plans to sue the Syrian refugee she was filmed deliberately tripping up as he fled Serbian border police while carrying a child.

News THERE has been a 7.1 magnitude earthquake off Vanuatu but there is no tsunami threat because the quake was located too deep inside the earth.

Technology DECEPTIVE reviews are common online - so is there a surefire way to pick the fakes?

News PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull has promised to speed up the appeals process for New Zealanders facing deportation from Australia.

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News THE newly sworn-in Australian Prime Minister was officially welcomed into New Zealand for the first time.

News An American chaplain helped motorcyclists like Mackay’s Charles Linsley come to terms with the death of Barbara Thomas, during a 21-day ride across the USA.

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News HONG Kong's flagship carrier Cathay Pacific has suspended flights over Iran and the Caspian Sea after a warning was issued about missiles being fired at Syria.

News THE New Zealand Government's new travel tax is to come in on January 1, adding $21.57 to the price of a round trip air fare to and from this country.