Ill fisherman airlifted off trawler A sick Russian crewman is in Southland Hospital after being airlifted off a fishing trawler in the Southern Ocean.The man was taken off the trawler the Ivan Golubet by the Te Anau-based Southern Lakes Helicopters, 282km south-east... 
© 2025 NZ Herald Wed, 27 Sep 8:00am Tapu Misa: We can enjoy a laugh at ourselves but we're no bad joke Oh, the burden of being a brown comedian in Aotearoa. If you're not being slapped around for making the tribe look bad by reinforcing, even accentuating, its worst stereotypes, you're under suspicion for not being stereotypical enough.The... 
© 2025 NZ Herald Wed, 27 Sep 8:00am Atlantis, Auckland central Herald rating: * * *Atlantis. Now there's a funny name for a restaurant, especially when it's in a room that's housed one or three establishments which have sunk without trace. Seems like coming home and telling the family, "Hey,... 
© 2025 NZ Herald Wed, 27 Sep 8:00am 'Honorary Afghan' steps back from front-line danger Gisborne-born Terence White drifted into photo-journalism when he was in his twenties, while on a trip to Cambodia during the Vietnam War - which by then had spilled into the Southeast Asian country.White hitched a trip to the... 
© 2025 NZ Herald Wed, 27 Sep 8:00am Locked in a room full of secrets By this time next week a New Zealand artist will be $50,000 richer and planning a trip to New York. They will also be the third winner of the Walters Prize, established in 2002 and held every second year.The inaugural winner was... 
© 2025 NZ Herald Wed, 27 Sep 8:00am Unwanted Gest thrown out A judge threw out a US$10 million ($15 million) assault lawsuit against Liza Minnelliby former husband David Gest, who claimed she beat him so badly during alcoholic rages that he needed hospital treatment.Justice Jane Solomon... 
© 2025 NZ Herald Wed, 27 Sep 8:00am Black market caviar a $748m trade that puts fish stock at risk GENEVA - A global ban on wild caviar is spurring illegal trade and failing to conserve sturgeon stocks in the Caspian Sea, says Armen Petrossian, head of the company that introduced caviar to the West after the Russian Revolution.Wild... 
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  Jackass sequel pranks way to Number One LOS ANGELES - Jackass Number Two outgrossed all other films in the US at the weekend, earning back its entire production costs in just one day.The film pulled in a massive US$29 million ($43 million), proving once again that... 
© 2025 NZ Herald Wed, 27 Sep 8:00am On track: Virtuoso scales heights Hilary Hahn's latest CD comes to us with one German critic claiming "it doesn't get any better, more beautiful, more truthful than this". Praise indeed, although we are not talking Bach or Mozart.Some eyebrows might even shoot... 
© 2025 NZ Herald Wed, 27 Sep 8:00am New Zealand String Quartet at Auckland Town Hall Concert Chamber The New Zealand String Quartet's contribution to Mozart Year took an enterprising approach. Mozart's six Haydn Quartets were written for no other reason than paying tribute to an older colleague. He worked on them for three years;... 
© 2025 NZ Herald Wed, 27 Sep 8:00am Ambitious art moves beyond the square Art comes big these days, often as installations. One of the competitors in the rich Walters Prize also has another vast work at Artspace in Karangahape Rd. Peter Robinson 's work there, called Ack , is far more exuberant than the... 
© 2025 NZ Herald Wed, 27 Sep 8:00am Birthday girl runs the full emotional gamut This Sunday finds the Karlheinz Company in celebratory mode. It's the 50th birthday of composer Eve de Castro-Robinson; a late afternoon concert with a new commission flanked by older works and musical tributes from friends and colleagues.De... 
© 2025 NZ Herald Wed, 27 Sep 8:00am Relationship rehab for Moss and Doherty Supermodel Kate Moss and troubled rocker Peter Doherty were reunited yesterday after the singer checked out of a drug rehabilitation clinic. One report suggested they might get married.The couple - whose on-off relationship regularly... 
© 2025 NZ Herald Wed, 27 Sep 8:00am Multisports: Mountain to host event Next month Mt Ruapehu will host the Peak to Powderkeg event that starts at Turoa Skifield and finishes at Ohakune. Athletes compete individually or in a team of three in three stages - skiing or snowboarding, running, and biking.... 
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