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Matt McCarten: Bungling Brash buoyed but unlikely to hold on to his job
There's something nasty seeping through the body politic. It's gone far enough now that I sense it's taken on a permanency.I wonder if that's what Helen Clark was referring to when she accused Don Brash of being cancerous and...

Kidnap to make boy happy
Jayden Headley's grandfather Dick told a neighbour a week before the little boy disappeared that it was time to take the law into his own hands.Jayden, 6, was abducted from Hamilton's central library 45 days ago after a custody...

Banks scramble for lost accounts
Kiwibank is picking up 2000 new accounts a week as the major banks scramble to lure back customers.Westpac is the latest bank to launch a fee-free account, and says it's done so to win back the 100,000 customers it has lost to...

Love and war for Presley
"She's a great person. A wonderful person," enthuses Marco Marinkovich. "What else can I say? She's a lovely, lovely lady who's a lot of fun."But that's as far as the surprisingly bashful Marinkovich is prepared to go in discussing...

Greenpeace demand extradition of Royal
Greenpeace New Zealand is demanding the extradition of the brother of French presidential hopeful Segolene Royal after claims yesterday that he "planted" the bomb on the Rainbow Warrior two decades ago.Greenpeace executive director...

Internet freedom reigns in Amsterdam (Reuters)

Reuters - Amsterdam has the world's busiest Internet exchange, thanks to nuclear physicists and mathematicians who in the 1980s connected their network needs with the academic belief that knowledge needs to be free.

Olympian's horrific collision
Olympic gold medallist Bruce Kendall has for the first time recalled the horrific boating accident that nearly killed a close friend and left him with a million dollar court case.Kendall was coaching top American boardsailor Kimberley...

Man dies in tragic stairway fall
A night out with friends ended in tragedy yesterday when a slide down a banister rail cost a young Tauranga fisherman his life.Blair Robinson, 25, fell two-and-a-half stories after toppling from a staircase banister inside the...

Lawless sings her way to second spot
The warrior princess can also warble with the best. Xena star Lucy Lawless has come runner-up in the hit American TV show Celebrity Duets , a reality show which pitted television stars with professional singers in an Idol-style...

New Brethren spy comes in from the cold
Prime Minister Helen Clark is still being investigated by a former high-ranking police officer who says he is being paid by the Exclusive Brethren.The Herald on Sunday has been told that former detective sergeant Lew Proctor...

Video games aim to spice up old people's lives (AFP)

AFP - A 93-year-old resident at an old-age home plays tennis against the wall of his bedroom, using a touch-sensitive glove and wearing a virtual helmet.