Scuffles as NZ leader makes budget speech
PROTESTERS and police have had pushing matches outside Auckland’s SkyCity Convention Centre ahead of the NZ prime minister’s post-budget speech.
PROTESTERS and police have had pushing matches outside Auckland’s SkyCity Convention Centre ahead of the NZ prime minister’s post-budget speech.
BUILDERS have discovered a World War II bomb near Wembley Stadium in London, sparking an evacuation.
UKRAINE has scrapped five military cooperation agreements with Russia, in a further deterioration in relations between the countries.
A US man has shot an endangered black rhino in Namibia after paying $US350,000 for the privilege.
A SUSPECT arrested in relation to March’s deadly attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis was reportedly in Italy when the strike took place.
A HUNDRED years ago, 214 soldiers from the Royal Scots on their way to fight at Gallipoli and 12 civilians were killed in Britain’s worst rail disaster.
HARRY Potter series author JK Rowling will donate to charity the substantial damages she will receive from a newspaper that could not back its allegations.
THE Islamic State group now controls more than half of Syria, comprising 95,000 square kilometres and nine provinces.
FIFTY small ships have sailed for Dunkirk in France to mark the 75th anniversary of the operation that rescued thousands of soldiers during WWII.
TV personality David Letterman, an American cultural institution, has gone into retirement after 33 years and 6028 broadcasts of his late-night show.
MORE than 1400 suspects have been identified in a UK investigation into past child sex abuse.
AUTHORITIES say the death toll in the Colombian mudslide has risen to 83, with the number of people still missing unclear.
A NEW technique using headphones with an ear plug linked to a computer lets doctors measure fluid pressure in the skull and helps detect brain injuries.
THE Louisiana black bear population, once down to fewer than 100, has recovered and may be taken off the list of threatened species.
LOLZ, shizzle and cakehole are among 6500 new words added to the existing quarter of a million in the latest Collins Scrabble word list.
US model Janice Dickinson is seek unspecified damages on defamation she alleged was made by Bill Cosby’s representatives after she accused him of rape.
CARDINAL George Pell has denied claims he bribed a victim of a pedophile priest to keep quiet and dismissed another victim’s complaints as “ridiculous”.
AN experiment led by a neuroscientist has found that people who watch video in 3D have improved cognitive skills compared to those who watch in 2D.
A TROVE of stone tools found in Kenya are 3.3 million years old, pushing back the record of stone tools by about 700,000 years.
THE body of blues legend B.B. King will return next week to the Mississippi Delta to be buried at the museum named after the 15-time Grammy winner.
EIGHTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD General Manuel Contreras has racked up 500 years in prison sentences as the former chief of a fear spy agency in Chile.
TWO suspected leaders of al-Qaeda branches have been killed in northern Mali by French troops.
A BRITISH pianist has won the right to publish a book about his sexual abuse as a boy after his ex-wife tried to stop it to protect their son.
FISHERMEN say they wept when they saw the condition of the starving migrants they found on a boat off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province.
BOLIVIAN bakeries have gone on strike over changes to imported flour subsidies.
A MORTAR attack on the Russian embassy in Damascus is an act of terror, the UN and US say.
FORMER Chilean president Frei Montalva died suspiciously in 1982 after a routine hernia operation.
HUGH Jackman has used an appearance on a US TV talkshow to educate Americans on the correct way to eat Vegemite.
A HIGH-END prostitute has been jailed for six years in California over the death of a Google executive who died of a heroin overdose.
GALLIPOLI hero John Simpson Kirkpatrick has been remembered in his hometown in north east England 100 years after he was killed on the Turkish peninsula.
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