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Tearful Christchurch mayor says he will stand down

Pathologist: 'Classical' drug combo killed Smith's son
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Asian gangs exploiting prostitution law, Copeland says
Asian gangs are exploiting changes in prostitution laws to run lucrative illegal brothels, United Future MP Gordon Copeland says.Mr Copeland is part of a three member working group looking into problems with the Prostitution Reform...

Sep 28 - Close: Cullen comments douse NZD's flame

February murder trial for McNeill

Ex-Comverse chief captured after manhunt (AP)

AP - After a two-month international manhunt, the indicted former chief executive of leading voicemail-software maker Comverse Technology Inc. was captured on Wednesday in southwest Africa, U.S. officials announced Wednesday.

Google to file motion in Orkut case (AP)

AP - Google Inc. will file a motion in response to a Brazilian judges' deadline to turn over information on users of the company's social networking service Orkut, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

'Itsy Bitsy' writer victim of itsy-bitsy imposter
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Teenager to stand trial for murder of 16-year-old girl
A Turangi teenager has been committed to trial for the murder of a 16-year-old girl.The teenager, who cannot be legally named, was yesterday committed to trial at the end of a four-day depositions hearing in the Rotorua Youth...

Screech hopes sex tape will lift profile
The actor who played the nerdy Screech in the US sitcom Saved by the Bell has surfaced as the star of his own sex tape.According to US media reports, Dustin Diamond features in a 40-minute three-way video with two women.Diamond,...

"Wild," "Slevin" top DVD charts (Reuters)
Reuters - With studios holding on to their big DVD titles for fourth-quarter release, the third quarter is ending with a whimper.

MySpace may be worth $15 billion (Reuters)

Reuters - MySpace, the social networking Web site, could be worth around $15 billion within three years, measured in terms of the value created for shareholders of parent company News Corp., a Wall Street media analyst forecast on Wednesday.