The official media guide for the Asian Games provides some interesting, yet wrong, explanations for events.

Rescuers are racing to reach 28 men trapped in a coal mine in southern China.

The Yemen beach volleyball team have blamed a loss at the Asian Games on bikini-clad Chinese cheerleaders.

New Zealand golfer Mark Brown is quietly confident of upsetting his more fancied rivals and capturing the Hong Kong Open.

England's good form of 2010, winning seven of 10 Tests, comes with a mixed report card.

A competitor in the golf event at the Asian Games had a first round to forget shooting a whopping 58 shots over par.

Five months after Irish No 8 Jamie Heaslip brazenly kneed the All Blacks captain in the back, McCaw barely recalls the incident ahead of presumably their next encounter

Brendon McCullum scored a test best 225 to ensure the second test with India ended in a stalemate.

Watch Kiwi Karl Loo's video of the shocking 30-story apartment complex fire, two blocks from his home, which left 42 dead.

A new species of lizard has become a legend in its own lunchtime after being identified by scientists from the menu of a Vietnamese restaurant.

The economic recession and increasing awareness about environmental and ethical concerns have spurred many in the fashion industry to look more closely at its image.

John Key has told his Japanese hosts at Apec that NZ only wants Japan at talks on a regional free trade agreement if agriculture is on the table.

A Sufi shrine is also the resting place of a famous concubine, writes Jim Eagles.

Sapporo, the capital of Japan's second largest and northernmost island, is turned into a crystalline winter wonderland during Yuki Matsuri.