NZ Herald

South Africa's newest international captain AB de Villiers yesterday scotched the idea that his team is suspect under pressure.

The New Zealand video game development industry grew 46% last year, boosted by the huge growth of smartphone and online gaming, according to a survey of developers.

A Pepsi New Zealand competition promising to send four people to the Running of the Bulls in Spain has been dropped amid outrage from animal activists.

The so-called accidental stowaway on a Norwegian sailor's expedition to the Antarctic is said to be a Maori political activist who has planted a Mana Party flag in the ice.

Linda Laing, the trainer of Veyron, said the best has not been seen of the 6yr-old who won the group one Waikato Sprint in near track record time at Te Rapa on Saturday.

People who drink more than half a litre of fizzy drink a day are also more likely to have asthma or serious lung conditions - especially if they are smokers as well, a major study has found.

The 18-year-old abseiling window cleaner who fell four storeys remembers a sense of weightlessness as she plummeted 30m to the ground.

A controversial report concluding cycle helmet legislation actually increases deaths overall has been rubbished by experts.

Earthquake prediction will be a step closer if New Zealand wins a bid to host the largest radio telescope built.

So it's goodbye Mr Smile and Wave, and hello Mr Grumpy. Or so the Prime Minister's critics would have you believe.