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Sarcophagus of value

Cairo, January 3: Eight men were required to carry the golden coffin and royal mask of Tutankhamen, which was brought here from Luxor, and is now in the Egyptian Antiquities Museum in Cairo.

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Patient portal privacy

It is easy to understand why we want to have control over who has access to our health information.

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Letters to the Editor: birdsongs and balderdash

A Town Belt resident contemplates changing times. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

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Letters to the Editor: birdsongs and balderdash

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including plans to close the Town Belt to vehicle traffic, and to suggest that protests against genocide are antisemitic.

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Those getting stuff done, or needing to get more stuff done

Environment Minister Penny Simmonds. Photo: RNZ

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Those getting stuff done, or needing to get more stuff done

Although everyone else does "Politician of the year", at Southern Say we eschew such tawdry baubles.

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The secret diary of . . . New Year's resolutions

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The secret diary of . . . New Year's resolutions

By Steve Braunias

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Flooding in Netherlands

Amsterdam, January 2 (Received Jan 3, at 5.5pm): A dyke on the Meuse, near Cuyck, collapsed, torrents of water rushing into the eastern part of the province.

In living memory

Forty-one members of the Hāwea-Wānaka Pony Club were pictured heading along the main highway above Lake Hāwea in January 1986.

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Making our New Year’s resolutions achievable

The new year was celebrated with a fireworks display in the Octagon in Dunedin. Photo Peter McIntosh

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Making our New Year’s resolutions achievable

How many New Year’s resolutions have already fallen over?

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Is a new normal OK for road toll?

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Is a new normal OK for road toll?

A new year means a fresh start for many, but for others — the media being no exception — it means a reheating of the same old same old.

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A great display of pyrotechnics

A New Year’s Eve fireworks display depicting WW1’s Battle of Jutland at the New Zealand and South...

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A great display of pyrotechnics

It is many years since Dunedin people have been offered anything ambitious in the way of a fireworks display and undoubtedly the promised £500 demonstration was one of the outstanding events at the...

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Hard year for many but New Zealand is not yet broken

Nicola Willis and Christopher Luxon. PHOTO: JULIE ASHER

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Hard year for many but New Zealand is not yet broken

It's just a speck in the sky at first but travelling at tremendous speed.

Not just peace enforcers needed

Beachgoers return to Bondi, photographed from behind a piece of cloth bearing messages left by...

Not just peace enforcers needed

There are obvious questions about the Bondi massacre but they are not enough, Tony Martin writes.

The simple dots which simply mean an enormous amount to many

A Perkins Braille machine. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON

The simple dots which simply mean an enormous amount to many

Braille is an everyday language, not a specialist code, Andrea Midgen writes.

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Holding on to hope

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Holding on to hope

The countdown to any new year comes with mixed emotions.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Shaun Yeo's best of 2025.

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Letters to the Editor: debt, dumpsters and drugs

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Letters to the Editor: debt, dumpsters and drugs

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including getting our debt crisis under control, the ethics of dumpster diving, and the argument for drug reform in NZ.

What price preservation of endangered geckos?

A jewelled gecko on Otago Peninsula. PHOTO: CAREY KNOX

What price preservation of endangered geckos?

Why not sell jewelled geckos Gerrard Eckhoff writes.

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School marks jubilee one year late

Past and present pupils of Clinton School assemble for the school’s 50th anniversary. — Otago...

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School marks jubilee one year late

For over 50 years the Clinton School has stood at the northern end of the town, and when its jubilee was celebrated yesterday many acquaintances were renewed.

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