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Peter Burling: ‘Control Team New Zealand wanted over me was just crazy’
The former Team NZ skipper has revealed new details about his shock departure from the America's Cup defenders.

New report says ‘A’s’ set to become most common grade at NZ universities
The report by the New Zealand Institute says this will come with“ serious costs" if things don’t change.

Fiji and Cook Islands to face heavyweights at 2026 Rugby League World Cup
The draws for the men's, women's and wheelchair World Cups were made at the weekend.

'Slender Man' stabber's disappearance and the internet boogeyman who inspired her
Morgan Geyser, who was living under supervised release at a group home for her role in the 2014 stabbing of her 12-year-old classmate, is back in custody.

'Iconic' Bollywood actor dies at 89
India's prime minister and top stars paid tribute to Dharmendra Deol, who acted in more than 300 films.

Fonterra narrows Farmgate Milk Price point to between $9 and $10
Strong milk flows in NZ and other milk-producing changes have seen the price range narrow to $9.50 a kilo of milk solids, from $10.

Black Friday: Consumer warns shoppers to be wary of sales
Months of tracking prices at major retailers has found that claims of good deals weren't as good as they were made out to be.

Why the rugby world should be terrified by the Springboks
ANALYSIS: In truth, daylight is in second place at the moment.

Govt launches new digital plan to modernise health systems
Our health system is being held back by outdated, disconnected technology,” says Health Minister Simeon Brown.

Amazon to invest $50 billion in data centers to power US government AI efforts

Bitcoin Weakness Persists as Crypto Steadies After Bruising Week

Anthropic bolsters AI model Claude's coding, agentic abilities with Opus 4.5

AWS is spending $50B build AI infrastructure for the US government

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5 as Google's Gemini 3 gains big backers

Watch: Astonishment as Everton player sent off after slapping team-mate
Idrissa Gueye lost his cool after he and Michael Keane exchanged words over a misplaced pass.

Two climbers die on Aoraki Mt Cook
Two climbers died during a climb on Aoraki Mt Cook on Monday night.

Kiwi paralympic swimmer Joshua Willmer gunning for gold and world records
"I want to do big things," says Joshua Willmer, one of New Zealand's young paralympic stars, as he prepares to defend his Commonwealth title.

A poem can hack ChatGPT? New study reveals a surprising AI flaw
Forcing an “AI” to do your will isn’t a tall order to fill—just feed it a line that carefully rhymes and you’ll get it to casually kill. (Ahem, sorry, not sure what came over me there.) According to a new study, it’s easy to get “AI” large language models like...

Jimmy Cliff, reggae music pioneer, dies at 81
The anti-establishment bent of Cliff's music gave a voice not only to the hardships faced by Jamaicans, but to the spirit and joy that persevered in spite of poverty and oppression.

Fiji and Cooks Islands to face heavyweights at 2026 Rugby League World Cup
The draws for the men's, women's and wheelchair World Cups were made at the weekend.

Plugable doesn’t want PC owners to find its awesome $140 dock deal
Don’t you always feel a little tingle of victory when you find a deal you’re not supposed to know about? In this case, Plugable is sneaking in a 41 percent off Black Friday deal on its Thunderbolt 4 docking station for laptops… that’s trying to avoid the Windows PC market. The...

Death following house fire in Auckland being investigated
The death is being treated as unexplained.

National KiwiSaver policy rushed, lacks detail, Hipkins says
The National policy lacked detail on hsupporting low income workers into KiwiSaver, or how to stop ‘Uberisation’ of the workforce, Hipkins said.