All Whites' $10m World Cup goal
IN ONE of the most momentous results in New Zealand sports history, the All Whites football team has earnt a place at the World Cup in South Africa next year after beating Bahrain 1-0 in a drama-packed playoff in Wellington.Booze price hike meets resistance
By ANTHONY HUBBARD - Sunday Star Times
A STAND-OFF has developed between supermarkets and the Law Commission over a proposed scheme to raise the prices of cheap beer and wine.
Four held after man shot dead
By STAFF REPORTERS - Sunday Star Times
ARMED police late last night swarmed on a house in Richmond, near Nelson, and took four people into custody after a fatal shooting yesterday evening.
Knife thrown at NZ Cup runners
By BARRY LICHTER - Sunday Star Times
ADDINGTON RACEWAY officials are on a manhunt for the person who threw a knife at the leading horses during last Tuesday's $1 million New Zealand Cup.
'Billions' for NZ in new free-trade zone
By VERNON SMALL in Singapore - Sunday Star Times
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has promised to restart trade talks in a move that puts New Zealand at the heart of a future Asia-Pacific free-trade zone.
Nappy-changers told to sing on the job
EARLY CHILDHOOD teachers should be singing to babies during nappy changes, government officials have decreed.
Outcry over Kiwi's lengthy Jakarta jailing
A New Zealander's 15-month detention in a Jakarta jail while awaiting extradition on fraud charges has sparked a human rights outcry in Indonesia.
Researcher gets $864k to study boozy teens
Don't let MPs off defamation hook: lawyer
Live from the couch
The world's least technically savvy reporter, Kim Knight, is one of the first to experience television's next big thing.
Everything in the mix for reunion tour
THESE are the things you learn on the road: small-town lamingtons taste better than the city ones; there's nothing lonelier than watching infomercials on your own in a hotel room; and Dave Dobbyn in a wig and a miniskirt looks uncannily like "a pubescent Janet Frame" (his own words).
Agent to the stars
Almost famous
Once more with healing
In their first tour together for nearly 40 years, legendary singers Carole King and James Taylor will visit New Zealand next year. They talk to Grant Smithies about why their heartfelt songs struck a chord in the 1970s.
This was just icing on the Cake Tin
IT WAS an occasion like New Zealand has never seen before. In football, or any other sport.
Kiwi pursuit quartet sets the track on fire
THE BEIJING Olympic medal-winning pursuit team set the track alight with a brilliant performance on the final night on the track at the Oceania Championships in Invercargill last night.
The top 10 shootout
Countdown to death in the provinces
Fallon dynasty gains new life
FOR NEW Zealand football this is the second coming. And the Messiah is named Rory Fallon.
Sponsored links
Reef-builders fish for investors
A Raglan company's marine research expertise is in demand around the world, writes Greg Ninness.
Christmas spirit hampered
The reclusive owner of Chrisco has had enough of being portrayed as a latter-day Scrooge, writes Rob Stock. But the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future haunt him.
Hawes offers sage advice to grandson
Locating the sweet spot
We can't afford to be a mini-me
NO DOUBT Australia is the envy of other countries. With only one quarter of negative growth during the world's worst economic crisis in 80 years, it is the only developed country to avoid a recession.
Harawira sends us to Helen back
IT WAS typical that the Kaitaia hui tasked with deciding Hone Harawira's political future was open only to Maori media. The colour of one's skin determined access and the mainstream media supinely accepted this latest racial snub.
The pashes and bashes of boarding school
LET ME sweep aside the veil on latent lesbianism in New Zealand girls' boarding schools of the past, since British author Fay Weldon has already twitched that Terylene. It was alive and throbbing in my boarding school long after she dwelt in Christchurch Girls' High dormitories; not a matter of girls having dirty minds – which they do – but of sheer, nagging boredom.
Let's blame it on feminism!
Architects of our own downfall
The mother of all insults ...
SPEAKING AS a white motherf----- myself, I can't say I took much offence at Hone Harawira's flaming email to Buddy Mikaere a week ago. The lesson, I thought, was one many of us have learned to our lasting regret: don't click "send" in anger, especially after 10 o'clock at night.
A parting gift
Dissecting bodies is an invaluable way for medical students at Otago University to learn about life and death. So what makes someone bequeath their body to science?
Once more with healing
In their first tour together for nearly 40 years, legendary singers Carole King and James Taylor will visit New Zealand next year. They talk to Grant Smithies about why their heartfelt songs struck a chord in the 1970s.
Beauty in the eye of the beholder
Second act of Rome trilogy a triumph
Portrait of an art lover
Jonathan Mane-Wheoki has dedicated a lifetime to nurturing New Zealand's artistic community. In his first major interview since becoming head of the prestigious Elam Art School, he reveals his vision to Kim Knight.
Search for events in your area
Our listings are updated every day - and there's something for everyone
