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Bowel cancer screening will save lives and money through early detection, but most health boards will need to build new units or buy new equipment to cope with a huge increase in colonoscopy.

A poll found half of America's likely voters would rely on the debates to help them pick who should be president.

Two African-American athletes sent home from the 1968 Olympic Games for their raised-fist protest on the medal podium, will receive a long-awaited moment of redemption at the White House this week.

A 65-year-old man who fell several metres and badly knocked his head on Saturday night was airlifted out of the ranges above Lake Christabel at the headwaters of the Grey River in a rescue operation lasting several hours.

A ``brazen'' burglar has allegedly been caught staring down the lens of a CCTV camera - and then stealing from the Auckland home anyway.