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Northpower ponders bid for Tongan electricity firm
Whangarei-based lines company Northpower will decide in the next few months whether it wants to bid for Tonga's electricity company.Shoreline Power is a company looking for a new owner as the new King of Tonga, Siaosi Tupou V,...

Netball: Canterbury's title quest rolls on
Canterbury maintained their unbeaten record at the national netball championships, comprehensively beating hosts Auckland Waitakere 54-46 in the first leg of their double header in west Auckland today.Auckland Waitakere led 17-13...

Cycling: Gudsell signs with professional team
Tim Gudsell has joined the small but illustrious list of New Zealand cyclists to be offered a pro contract with a top European cycling team.Te Awamutu rider Gudsell, 22, has been offered a two-year contract with Francaise des...

Netball: More trouble brewing in Australia
The Australian netball team's camp ahead of its three-Test series against the Silver Ferns is likely to be delayed following a pay dispute between the game's governing body and the Players' Association.The national squad was due...

Lifesaving pair win the generation game

Boys' fire rescue a class act

Diplomatic police head email inquiry

Teachers want help in classroom war zones

P lab discovered at primary school

Slingshot chief denies her number's up

NZ passports being used illegally, exercise shows

Banished MP digs heels in

Backlog being cleared at Auckland airport as fog lifts

Sex study grant draws stiff criticism from National

Billionaire spends millions mapping mouse brains
WASHINGTON - So you're a billionaire and you've bought a couple of sports teams, launched an amateur space project and spent US$800 million ($1.21 billion) on good causes -- what do you do with the change?Microsoft Corp. co-founder...

Observers await word of Pearl sales
Research In Motion Ltd reports second-quarter earnings on Thursday and investors and analysts will be keenly watching for word of sales of the new BlackBerry Pearl, the wireless email device the company is hoping will capture a slice...

Fog clears at Auckland airport after delays
Air New Zealand says it expect its operations to be back to normal by the end of the day after morning fog caused disruption at Auckland airport.Air NZ was among airlines affected the fog, which lifted by late morning.It had...

Hart reported to be chasing Amcor deal
Billionaire entrepreneur Graeme Hart was today reported to be eyeing Amcor Ltd's Australian and New Zealand cardboard box packaging business.The Independent Financial Review reported investment bankers believed Mr Hart would...

Motorsport: Schumacher trounces Alonso in popularity stakes
Even if he fails to beat Fernando Alonso to the Formula One drivers' title, Michael Schumacher remains in a world of his own when it comes to global popularity.A global survey of F1 fans published on Tuesday revealed the Ferrari...

American football: Home sweet dome
Another hurricane has hit New Orleans.But this was the kind they have been dreaming of: a tidal surge of fans welcoming their adored NFL Saints home, as the city took its greatest single step towards normality since Katrina's...

Former All Black sidelined with knee injury
Former All Black Bruce Reihana, who now plays in England, has been sidelined from rugby for the rest of the year with a knee injury.Reihana, 30, captain of the Northampton Saints, was injured in a tackle 10 minutes into his team's...

Osbourne admits suicide bid

ISPs incensed by Telecom's 'price squeeze'
New Zealand's leading internet providers are concerned by Telecom's proposed pricing for its full speed broadband products which they say will place a price squeeze on ISPs. They claim Telecom has resisted making full speed plans...

Sony to launch web bookstore and e-book device in October
NEW YORK - Sony Corporation have said it will launch an electronic book store on the internet and start selling a device that displays e-books purchased from the store on October 1, after missing an earlier unveiling in the Spring...