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Revealed: the Guantanamo inmates too dangerous to release

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:52:46 +1000

A FREEDOM of Information request has forced US authorities to name the terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay for the last 12 years.

Jewel heist ends in farce amid bungled attempts to sell gems

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:10:48 +1000

A SPECTACULAR spectacular jewel heist in which armed robbers coolly snatched £30 million in diamonds from a plane at Brussels airport ended in near farce.

Mum accused of stabbing partner, cutting baby

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:21:07 +1000

A MOTHER cut her baby after she stabbed her partner in the back while he was holding the child in a domestic incident in Christchurch last night, police say.

Saatchi says Nigella hand-on-throat images a 'playful tiff'

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:56:29 +1000

CHARLES Saatchi denies photos of him repeatedly placing his hands around his wife Nigella Lawson's neck were evidence of anything more than a "playful tiff".

Woman tells of 15th floor plunge drama

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:25:00 +1000

A WOMAN has described the nightmare of trying to grab a man who fell from the 15th floor of an Auckland city apartment block - and survived.

Iran will send 4,000 troops to aid Bashar al-Assad

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:19:03 +1000

US urges Britain and France to join in supplying arms to Syrian rebels as MPs fear that UK will be drawn into growing Sunni-Shia conflict

Catholic Church should not seek riches, says Pope

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:00:00 +1000

POPE Francis said today that the Catholic Church, which rakes in hundreds of millions of euros each year, should not seek to accumulate wealth.

Dozing bank employee transfers €222,222,222.22 in his sleep

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:44:38 +1000

A BANK employee nodded off while making what was supposed to be a minor money transfer and inadvertently drained €222m from an account – without realising.

'Plasticarian' tries to live a plastic-free life

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +1000

WHEN Thomas Smith, was given a plastic lid for his takeaway tea by the staff at his university café, he said, "I can't take that, I'm a plasticarian."

Erin Brockovich arrested for being 'drunk in charge of boat'

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:00:00 +1000

ENVIRONMENTAL activist Erin Brockovich has been arrested in Las Vegas for being drunk in charge of a boat.

Backlash for turning 'whistleblower' on US operation

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:00:00 +1000

THE man behind the largest leak of classified information in the history of the US National Security Agency (NSA) has chosen to make his identity public.

Prince Harry 'saved me from gay hate attack'

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:00:00 +1000

A GAY soldier spoke about how Prince Harry bravely rescued him from a terrifying homophobe who threatened a gunner attack by squaddies from a rival regiment.

Chewbacca stopped at airport for lightsaber

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:02:48 +1000

STAR Wars’ Chewbacca found the farce was with him — when airport staff feared his lightsaber-style walking stick was a weapon.

Nelson Mandela back in hospital with serious lung infection

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 09:10:19 +1000

NELSON Mandela has been admitted to hospital in a “serious but stable” condition as a result of a lung infection.

Staff refused to fillet fish ... because it was too slippery

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +1000

STAFF at a grocery shop refused to fillet a fish for a customer on the grounds that it was 'too slippery'.

Fatal fight set up, say family

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 08:11:14 +1000

THE fight that killed teenager Stephen Dudley was set up to start after his team's rugby practice, his family have been told.

UK Government calls summit to block pornography sites

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 07:28:38 +1000

INTERNET and telecom companies will be ordered by the Government to block “harmful” content such as extremist material and pornography.

Vladimir Putin announces divorce from his wife

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:00:40 +1000

RUSSIA'S President Vladimir Putin has announced that he and his wife of 30 years, Lyudmila, have divorced.

'You take the mic but I'm leaving': Michelle Obama to heckler

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:46:08 +1000

MICHELLE Obama confronted a pro-gay rights heckler at a Democratic party fundraiser, telling her: "You can take the mic but I'm leaving."

Japanese 500km/h maglev bullet train tested successfully

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:04:21 +1000

THE first successful tests have been carried out for Japan’s new generation of L0 trains, maglev bullet trains designed to travel at speeds of 500km/h.