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/ 16 February 2005
New Zealand and Australia square off in a Twenty20 cricket match in New Zealand on Thursday, useing the new rapid-fire form of the game to try to ignite interest in their upcoming series that includes five one-day internationals and three Tests. New Zealand, ranked second in the world in limited-overs cricket, go into the series plagued with injuries.
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/ 12 January 2005
The biggest name in northern-hemisphere rugby, Jonny Wilkinson, is desperate to tour New Zealand with the British and Irish Lions and may not play in the Six Nations series, Lions coach Sir Clive Woodward said in Auckland, New Zealand, on Wednesday. He said the star flyhalf will be a key part of the team if he can recover from a knee injury.
One person has been reported dead and two missing after severe storms lashed New Zealand’s North Island, cutting off main arteries to the capital, Wellington, with floods and mudslides. Emergency officials are searching for two pilots whose cargo plane is thought to have crashed into the sea off the Kapiti coast.
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/ 25 September 2003
A top broadcaster’s description of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, one of the most respected leaders in the world, as a ”cheeky darkie” provoked a furious row on Thursday which even drew in Prime Minister Helen Clark. Clark has distanced the country from the comments.
Saddam Hussein’s stepson arrived in his adopted home country early on Wednesday after being deported from the United States where he had tried to enrol in a flight school used by a Sept. 11 hijacker.
A tiny hairy caterpillar that can strip a mature tree of its leaves in 90 days has been declared Public Enemy Number One by the New Zealand government.