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Ten-metre waves, whipped up deep in subantarctic waters, crashed into the Otago coast yesterday, preventing ships from entering the harbour and giving Dunedin beach defences a good workout.

The group of death is in town.

Mali and Serbia arrived in Dunedin yesterday ahead of their opening Fifa Under-20 World Cup matches at Otago Stadium on Sunday.

While everyone else was working up a sweat racing around the stalls at The Star Regent 24-hour Book Sale yesterday, the chaotic dash for books barely raised Morris Hall's pulse. 

Riding with Ken Block is probably as close to death as one can get.

Examinations are continuing today into the wreckage of a car linked to missing Invercargill boy Mike Zhao-Beckenridge.

Police say it is too early to tell what the car linked to missing Invercargill boy Mike Zhao-Beckenridge can tell them.

A world champion driver emerged bruised but otherwise unharmed after his 300kmh hydroplane flipped and crashed on Lake Dunstan yesterday.

As dawn broke on Anzac Day, blood-red clouds coloured the sky over Otago Harbour, illuminating the path Otago's sons travelled - many to their deaths - more than a century ago.