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Welllington real estate agent Tim Whitehead has won a "discharge without conviction" by appealing to the High Court over his landmark convictions for misleading home buyers.Whitehead complained to the court that legislation passed...

A woman who is on trial for murdering a three-year-old boy in her care told police she never laid a hand on him, a court was told today.Patricia Angela Pickering, 38, has pleaded not guilty in the High Court at Auckland to murdering...

A New Zealand family kicked out of Morocco say that although they are Christians, they were not trying to convert Muslim orphans they looked after.Aucklanders Chris and Tina Broadbent and their two young children were given an...

Team New Zealand made it two from two in the Louis Vuitton Trophy yachting regatta off Auckland today after gear failure on their opponents' boat turned a tight battle into an easy victory.They ended the day tied with Azzurra...

The Chiefs have made two changes to their starting 15 to face the Crusaders in a Super 14 rugby match in Hamilton on Friday night, while also leaving out loose forward Sione Lauaki, who was today charged with assault.Lauaki, who...

An Australian journalist stared at the New Zealand cricketer at the press conference and nudged his mate. "Who's he?"The shaven-headed chap peering over the top table beside his skipper was Gareth Hopkins, hardly a household name...

A top-ranked Southeast Asian militant wanted for planning the deadliest terrorist attack in Indonesia's history has been identified as the man killed in a shootout with police at an internet cafe, the president said today.Dulmatin,...

The girlfriend of a wheelchair-bound man who was bashed at a railway station in Sydney's west last night has described the attack as cowardly.The 35-year old Canadian is having surgery for a fractured skull, after police say he...

An Ohio judge has handed down a life prison term for a doctor convicted of killing his wife with cyanide.Relatives of the victim sobbed and held each other as Yazeed Essa, 41, was sentenced today in Cleveland. He could be eligible...

The New Zealand sharemarket rose today, following a decline yesterday after nine consecutive days of gains."It was a good performance by the local market considering there were flat performances offshore," said Grant Williamson,...

The New Zealand dollar rose today as traders squared up positions ahead of tomorrow's monetary policy statement by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.The NZ dollar was at US70.63c at 5pm and rose as high as US70.69c during the domestic...

New Zealand's financial markets are "back to normal" and government guarantees for banks, set up during the global financial crisis, will be phased out at the end of next month, says Finance Minister Bill English.Speaking at the...

A new survey shows many KiwiSaver members have a false sense of security about their investments, research company UMR says.In its latest survey of 750 New Zealanders aged 18 and over, almost half of all KiwiSaver members wrongly...

The New Zealand sharemarket rose early today, following a decline yesterday after nine consecutive days of gains.Telecom gained 2c early to $2.23, but another leading share, Fletcher Building, fell 2c to $8.08, and Contact Energy...

"It must be remembered," the PR-attenuated Simon Power commented in his 'fast-track' release this week, "that though KiwiSaver was set up by g