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English soccer star Raheem Sterling admits dangerous driving after highway collision
Former England forward Raheem Sterling admitted dangerous driving on Tuesday after being involved in a collision on a highway.

Where the All Blacks must begin repair job after Springboks exposed flaws
Injuries to captain Ardie Savea and Luke Jacobson will force the All Blacks selectors to make changes ahead of the two Bledisloe Cup tests against the Wallabies.

‘Just astounded’: Christchurch suburb once avoided sees property values more than double
Some areas of Christchurch have grown at twice the rate of the rest of the city.

Christchurch man praised mosque attacks before taking his own life in police standoff
Christchurch man Troy Dubovskiy died by suicide during a standoff with armed police, a coroner has found.

Government agency takes court action to stop Stuff publishing leaked information
The Ministry of Justice was granted an injunction after a journalist asked questions about a report into concerns raised about a law firm’s access to legal aid.

Ed Sheeran says it was 'not my decision' to drop Macklemore from tour
The star says tour promoters took the decision, after Macklemore made pro-Palestinian statements on stage.

Google Cloud named Leader in Forrester cloud assessment
Enterprises seeking AI-ready infrastructure may see Google Cloud's higher score as validation of its database, analytics and Kubernetes services.

Google Cloud adds pause & resume to Dataflow batch jobs
Interrupted batch workloads can now resume where they stopped, potentially cutting wasted compute and delays for Google Cloud customers.

Candescent expands Google Cloud AI tie-up for banks
The expanded deal should help more than 1,300 banks and credit unions move AI from pilot projects into day-to-day banking systems.

Zocks links client data platform to Claude for advisers
Advisers can now draft reviews and tax summaries with client context drawn from Zocks' conversation data, while keeping access read-only.

How city's market became a CBeebies TV set
The show, filmed in Coventry, aims to help young children explore food through their senses

‘Who wore it best?’: Black Fern mimicks Ardie Savea by wearing goggles in test wins
Sylvia Brunt has still been charging into contact despite needing protection for a nasty cut on her nose.

‘It’s quite heart-wrenching, really’: The reason this colourful character is saying goodbye to his hilltop home
When Robin Judkins set out for a walk one morning in 1987, he certainly hadn’t planned to come home having bought a neighbouring property.

Political heavyweights to clash over surging power bills in live energy debate
New Zealand’s Energy Future Debate, hosted in partnership with Stuff, will bring politicians together to lay out their vision for the energy sector.

Stuff’s Flip Forecaster projects the election result – and you can too
INTERACTIVE: Build your own Parliament or see how the latest polls could reshape New Zealand’s political landscape with Stuff’s new Flip Forecaster.

Merlin rolls out NiCE AI across visitor attractions
Visitors should see faster help and fewer repeat calls as Merlin links bookings, support and follow-up across 140 attractions worldwide.

Google adds six AI analytics functions to BigQuery
The update lets analysts probe metric swings, causal effects and trends inside BigQuery without exporting data to other tools.

Firefox 156 opens PDFs 45% faster, plus a few annoying bug fixes
Today, Mozilla released Firefox 156 to the Release channel, which is basically all users in the general public. It’s a pretty limp update by all accounts, without any standout new features and just a handful of minor bug fixes spread out across components. The built-in PDF reader launches about 45 percent...

Anthropic introduces Claude for financial advisers
Advisers could save hours on prep and compliance as the new Claude plugin links into portfolio, CRM and planning systems, Anthropic said.