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Kiwi hopes and an Aussie favourite: All you need to know about today’s New Zealand Trotting Cup
Partying racegoers at the Addington in Christchurch will get to see the best pacer in Australasia in action on Tuesday.

‘Talk less’: Ferrari boss gives Lewis Hamilton clear instructions
Hamilton’s first season with Ferrari has been building, prompting him to call it a ‘living nightmare’.

Hikoi mo Te Tiriti: A year on from one of Aotearoa's largest protest movement
A dawn karakia at Te Rerenga Wairua marked the beginning of a nationwide march opposing the Treaty Principles Bill.

AMD’s newest Ryzen X3D CPU is exclusive to Micro Center’s pre-built PC
This morning, a friend of mine waited in the cold outside of Brooklyn’s Micro Center retailer, specifically to buy this pre-built desktop. It’s a good deal, and they’d been wavering on a long-overdue PC upgrade for a while. But what’s interesting is that it’s packing a brand-new AMD Ryzen 5...

Te Pati Maori MPs' expulsions questioned by law expert, former co-leader
MPs Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and Takuta Ferris have called their expulsions "unconstitutional".

Our Changing World: Resurrecting Wellington’s Flowers of the Underworld
They were thought extinct in the region for 100 years, now the race is on to save a rare parasitic plant in the capital.

Bills' bad day gives Pats path to top spot - best of NFL week 10
Our pick of week 10 in the NFL includes analysis of Buffalo's shock defeat in Miami, why the Patriots have a path to a top seed and the records Jonathan Taylor could break.

Why Rybakina refused photo with WTA chief Archer
After claiming the biggest payday in women's tennis history, why did Elena Rybakina refuse a photo with WTA Tour CEO Portia Archer?

Olympics ready to ban transgender athletes from all women’s events
The Olympics is increasingly likely to ban transgender athletes from all female competition following a science-based review of evidence.

Does anyone really know what the two MPs did to get booted from Te Pati Maori?
ANALYSIS: When Te Pati Maori co-leaders tried to put an end to a sorry saga of infighting, they were unable to answer the most simple question.

I love my wireless JBL headphones — and they’re now 50% off
A couple years ago, my old headphones died on me, so I had to grab a new pair. Being partial to JBL and not wanting to spend a ton, I eventually decided on the JBL Tune 720BT—and I quickly fell in love with it. Two years later, they’re still in...

Black Friday traps! New AI scams are plaguing this shopping season
Black Friday started as a day for bargain sales, but has evolved into a global shopping phenomenon. But the bigger the participation, the more attractive it all becomes… for criminals. According to Austrian fact-checker Mimikama, security researchers have been observing a new wave of scam attempts made possible by generative AI:...

Why we used to sleep in two segments
Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3am and wonder if something's wrong.

Report: 10% of Meta’s revenue is from scammers on Facebook and Instagram
Anyone who’s been on Facebook recently knows the platform is plagued by advertising and other posts from scammers and other frauds. But the massive scale of the issue is no surprise to parent company Meta, which allegedly estimated that 10 percent of its 2024 revenue—that’s $16 billion USD—came from advertising...

IOC moves closer to ban on transgender women
The International Olympic Committee moves a step closer to introducing a blanket ban on transgender women from female categories across all sports.

What next for Real Madrid's forgotten man Endrick?
Real Madrid's Brazilian teenager Endrick has been near enough a forgotten man this season. BBC Sport looks at what might come next for him.