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Cricket: Pakistan with big edge on Boxing Day - Butt

Politics 2009: Key, Goff and the recession

A new PM defied the odds as the Govt struggled to deal with the worst recession in decades, and Labour played catch up politics.

Dollar falls on weak GDP report, strong US

Banks, miners push Aussie market higher

Soccer: All Whites to play Mexico

Flight Centre warned over false adverts, hidden fees

Flight Centre's "Fly for free" promotion breached the Fair Trading Act by offering deals that didn't exist and tickets that weren't available.

Conjoined twins out into a new world

The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne yesterday farewelled their two star patients, Trishna and Krishna, as they left five weeks after being surgically separated.

Combat veterans going deaf

Review: Fashion victims

Cultural sensitivity takes a dive in the reality series <i>Blood, Sweat and T-shirts</i>.

India: Goa MP says rape after midnight 'not crime'

Politician's 'contentious' comments spark outrage in the popular holiday destination of Goa.

Fate of US base delayed

Plagiarism forces Microsoft to shut social-network site

Sri Lanka: Tsunami victim who came back from the dead

There are a million questions one could ask the woman sitting on a Sri Lankan hospital bed, but for now only one matters: is she Padma Wawlanbokke?

Major stocks pull NZ shares higher

Lock 'em up, then let 'em go - US forces try new strategy

Modelled on how Sunni nationalist groups in Iraq were induced to turn their backs on al Qaeda, the first examples of the new US policy of "reconciling" the Taleban are now being seen.

Jail cuts for Christmas

Photographers warned they need work permits

Jail break-in