Controversy surrounds final punch
Kiwi boxing star Joseph Parker's latest bout against Jason Pettaway has ended in controversy in Manukau. 'Illegal blow' overlooked »
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Prince Charles frustrated by Middletons
Britain's Prince Charles is reportedly frustrated by the influence Duchess Catherine's parents have in Prince William's life. The 66-year-old heir-to-the-throne is said to feel upset that his son and daughter-in-law - who are expecting their second child together - spend so much time with her parents Michael and Carole Middleton, including a recent holiday to Mustique, while he rarely gets to see his grandson Prince George, 19 months. The family have made few, if any, trips to Charles' Highgrove estate in Gloucestershire over the past year, with insiders speculating William is keen to protect his family from a similar "stiff" upbringing to the one he endured, while Carole is said to not get along particularly well with William's stepmother Duchess Camilla.
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Bali Nine pair for execution ASAP
Bali Nine pair Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran calmly left their cells at Bali's Kerobokan prison before dawn and didn't say a word.
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Where the most millionaires are moving-and fleeing
According to a new study from global real estate consultant Knight Frank with Fragomen, the immigration specialist for the wealthy, more millionaires than ever are looking for homes in other countries. So where are millionaires moving from and going to to? The second largest millionaire loser is India, which saw 43,400, or 27 percent of its millionaires, leave the country in those 10 years.
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Henry wants suspended Titans back
Gold Coast coach Neil Henry has reaffirmed his desire to have the five players facing drug charges restored to training and available for NRL action as soon as possible. Titans chief executive Graham Annesley says the NRL club has no plan to lift the bans on Beau Falloon, Jamie Dowling, Greg Bird, Dave Taylor and Kalifa Faifai Loa after all five have had their initial court appearances. Falloon and Dowling faced court on Thursday and have had their matters adjourned until May 8 without plea while State of Origin stars Bird and Taylor as well as Faifai Loa are expected to appear on Monday.
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Reports Harrison Ford injured in plane crash
Reports are emerging that actor Harrison Ford has been seriously injured in a plane crash. According to TMZ Ford was piloting a vintage two-seater fighter plane when something went wrong and he crashed into a golf course in California. Ford was treated on the scene by two doctors who happened to be at the Penmar Golf Course.
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Lara Stone Splits From David Walliams
Lara Stone has reportedly split from her husband, David Walliams.
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Russia denies US claim of 'thousands' of troops in Ukraine
Russian officials on Thursday dismissed a claim by the United States that Moscow has sent "thousands" of troops to fight alongside pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine. "These figures, which are plucked out of the air, of course demoralise and disorientate the international community," foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said. US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland on Wednesday told a congressional foreign affairs committee that Russia had deployed "thousands and thousands" of troops to Ukraine, although she said she could not give a precise number.
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Lion opens tourists’ car door during safari
Forget opposable thumbs, one enterprising lion has figured out how to open car doors with its teeth and terrify unsuspecting tourists.
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World's Oldest Person Misao Okawa Turns 117 — What's Her Secret?
The world’s oldest living person, Misao Okawa, blows out her birthday candles to celebrate her 117 birthday. Happy Birthday to Japan’s Misao Okawa, who turns 117 today. Okawa donned a pink kimono and tucked a flower in her hair to celebrate her birthday with friends and family.
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These are the richest billionaires under 40
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has created more billionaires under 40 than any other company, according to a new ranking.In the Wealth-X list of 10 richest billionaires under 40, four made most or all of their fortune from Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg tops the
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Hamburg residents take revenge on late-night revelers with urine-repellent paint
Residents of Hamburg's St. Pauli's nightclub district are getting their own back on late-night revelers who urinate on public buildings, with a new high-tech paint that sends the spray bouncing right back at them. A local interest group has applied the special water-repellent paint, also used in shipbuilding, on two especially frequented buildings in the renowned nightclub district near the port to deter "Wildpinkler", as Germans call them. "This paint job sends a direct message back to perpetrators that their wild urinating on this wall is not welcome," Julia Staron, who organized the group, told Reuters.
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AP PHOTOS: A walk through the glitz of the Geneva car show
Automakers have found their swagger again after years of worrying about making cars cheaper and more fuel efficient. Here's a look at what it was like at the car show in Geneva, where manufacturers put ...
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Golden Gate Bridge jumper says sea lion saved him
A man who jumped off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge to try to take his own life and was kept afloat by a sea lion has said suicide prevention is now his life's work. Kevin Hines, in Australia to speak at several conferences, was a teenager struggling with mental illness and depression when he jumped off the famous bridge in 2000. Hines later spoke to a man who had been on the bridge that day and who had seen that it was not a shark but a sea lion.
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Ryan Reynolds And Blake Lively's Baby Is Allergic To Sleep
It seems Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are having a tough time with their new baby (whatever her name might be!). Reynolds joked in January that he'd had to assist with breastfeeding his new daughter, but it seems nothing is working when it comes to getting her to sleep. "Our baby in particular is, we think, allergic to sleep," Reynolds told The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
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Ed Sheeran leads tributes to Zane Lowe
Ed Sheeran has led tributes to BBC Radio 1 DJ, New Zealander Zane Lowe.The broadcaster will present his final weekday 7-9pm evening show on the station this week after 12 years as a DJ on the station, prompting an outpouring of support from acts who he
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Five stunners from the Geneva car show
New Ferrari, Lamborghini among top five cars to see at Geneva auto show.
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Clinton ran homebrew computer system for official emails
The computer server that transmitted and received Hillary Clinton's emails — on a private account she used exclusively for official business when she was secretary of state — traced back to an Internet service registered to her family's home in Chappaqua, New York, according to Internet records reviewed by The Associated Press. The highly unusual practice of a Cabinet-level official physically running her own email would have given Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, impressive control over limiting access to her message archives. It also would distinguish Clinton's secretive email practices as far more sophisticated than some politicians, including Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin, who were caught conducting official business using free email services operated by Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc.
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MH370 families trapped in 'black hole' one year later
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) - Chinese businessman Li Hua suffered a stroke, has considered suicide, and his wife has been hospitalised with heart trouble, all since their daughter went missing on flight MH370.
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Rio Tinto looking to slash more jobs
Mining giant Rio Tinto is looking to slash hundreds of jobs as a new round of cost cutting gets underway. Iron ore managers have reportedly begun cutting dozens of positions at the company's Pilbara operations in Western Australia as part of a process unions fear will leave up to 800 employees out of work. Workers in the Pilbara are worried the axe will fall on hundreds of jobs over the coming weeks and have called for the company to release details of any layoffs.
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Australia clamps down on illegal foreign housing investment
Australian authorities are clamping down on wealthy foreigners illegally buying real estate, ordering a Chinese billionaire to sell a Sydney mansion he recently bought for $30 million, a minister said ...
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