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Choose the All Blacks starting team for series decider against Boks with Stuff’s team selector
Dave Rennie’s men can still salvage a drawn series when they take on the world champions in Baltimore on Sunday (NZT).

New Zealand NH90 helicopter hits 3,000 flight hours
Heavy use in disaster relief and military missions has made New Zealand's NH90 fleet the first in the world to log 3,000 hours in service.

National promises to use international visitor levy to replace bed tax proposal
The bed tax is strongly supported by Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown.

Cyclist dies after crash with car
They were critically injured and later died in hospital.

13-year-old allegedly steals Pokémon cards worth more than $6000
Police recovered some of the valuable cards after executing a search warrant, but say others had already been swapped.

Kiwifruit contractor ordered to pay $23,000 to exploited migrant workers
Two men were made to work up to 70 hours a week for low or no pay in Bay of Plenty orchards, and one was forced to hand back $1500 cash for tax.

Allow overseas stars to play for England - Lawes
England selection should no longer be restricted to players based at domestic clubs, according to cap centurion Courtney Lawes.

Zheng stuns Swiatek after winning another set from 5-0 down
Zheng Qinwen wins a set from 5-0 down for the second successive match as she shocks Iga Swiatek to reach the US Open quarter-finals.

Champions League returns - who are favourites and players to watch?
The Champions League is back and BBC Sport take a look at who the favourites are to win the title plus predictions from the experts.

Can The Chancellor's Positive Vibes Limit Tax Rises?
Chancellor John Healey aims for ‘vibes boost’ in first major economic speech.

What we know about the journey of the Portsmouth migrant boat
BBC Verify used ship-tracking websites to follow UK and French vessels which monitored the migrant boat in the English Channel.

Flight recorders recovered from 'devastating' Amazon cargo plane crash
Five people were killed and five others seriously injured when the Boeing 767-300 overshot the runway at Miami International Airport.

Chris Hipkins attacks coalition on Paris Agreement
Chris Hipkins has announced an urgent review to fix the Emissions Trading Scheme.

Tenable & OpenAI launch AI inspector for cyber agents
Businesses using agentic AI in security operations could face less deployment risk as Tenable and OpenAI add pre-release checks for community tools.

Marketing leaders fret over AI brand discovery gaps
A growing measurement gap has left Australian marketers most worried about AI misrepresenting their brands, the research found.

Employee fired after scrubbing one word from her job title in legal document
The Australian woman was fired after scrubbing the word “senior” from her job title in legal correspondence, showing the importance of a title.

How Facebook is shaping public debate on sorcery violence in PNG
A new study highlights the important role Faebook plays in influencing public debate around sorcery accusation-related violence in communities in Papua New Guinea.

Rybakina sweeps past Osaka to close in on number one ranking
Elena Rybakina sweeps aside two-time champion Naomi Osaka to reach the US Open quarter-finals and close in on becoming world number one.

Americanswers… on 5 Live! Why is Lindsay Clancy’s mistrial dividing America?
And will Trump succeed in limiting mail-in voting before the midterms?

Ecclestone stopped by police for taking shotgun into Portugal
Former Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone says he was stopped by officials at an airport in Portugal after arriving with a shotgun he intended to use in a clay pigeon shooting competition.