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Controversial Families Commissioner Christine Rankin will tomorrow front the "vote no" campaign for the referendum on whether parents should be allowed to smack children. more »

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Airlines have released information on their punctuality ahead of changes to the Commerce Act next year, which will require a wide range of disclosure from airports. more »

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Roosters of many stripes invaded the pitch at last night's All Blacks rugby test against the French, ruffling feathers even before the game began. more »

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Thousands of neo-Druids, New Age followers and the merely curious flocked to Stonehenge on Sunday, beating drums, chanting and dancing in celebration of the longest day of the year. more »

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US and Afghan officials say a rare rocket attack on the main US base in Afghanistan has killed two US troops and wounded six Americans. more »

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It reads like a standard real estate contract between a Zionist institution and an Israeli couple. more »

Sport
New Zealand remain the nation to beat in under-20 rugby after beating England in the junior world championship final in Japan tonight. more »

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New Zealander Sacha Jones had to battle back from match point to win her semifinal in the $US10,000 ($NZ15,575) ITF Futures tennis tournament in Brownsville, Texas. more »

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The British and Irish Lions have identified how they can beat South Africa next weekend and keep their series alive. It's handling the referees that's a bigger problem. Baffled by decisions they believe helped the Springboks to a 26-21 victory at Kings Park on Saturday, the Lions will this week more »

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Regulators have shut down three more small banks, pushing this year's tally of failed banks to 40. One bank closed on Friday was in North Carolina, another in Georgia, and the third was in Kansas. more »

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Nortel Networks, once a technology giant, has decided to sell itself off in pieces rather than attempt to emerge from bankruptcy as a restructured company. more »

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The pharmaceutical industry agreed on Saturday to spend $80 billion (NZ$124 billion) over the next decade improving drug benefits for seniors on Medicare and defraying the cost of President Barack Obama's health care legislation, capping secretive negotiations with the White House and key lawmakers. more »

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One of the original signed prints of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out at photographers has been sold by a New Hampshire auction house for US$74,324 (NZ$114,748). more »

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An airport employee and a person familiar with Madonna's adoption proceedings in Malawi say the pop star's new daughter has been flown to London. more »

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American rockers Green Day have announced a New Zealand show in December as they tour on the back of their latest album 21st Century Breakdown. more »

Politics
President Barack Obama is seeing the downside of his light touch on revamping the US health care system. Congressional Democrats are off to a halting start, blindsided by a high cost estimate and divided over how to proceed. more »

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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said fallout over the recent lawmaker expense scandal has marked the worst time in his political life, but he has no immediate plans to step aside. more »

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President Barack Obama knows a little something about catching flies - knowledge he says he's using to help win over groups in solving America's health care crisis. more »