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The world's biggest food company, Nestle, has removed beef pasta meals from shelves in Italy and Spain after tests revealed traces of horse DNA.

Federated Farmers says the horse meat scandal in Europe is an opportunity for New Zealand to promote the new livestock identification and traceability system (NAIT).

Tuesday's headlines: Death of radio legend Kevin Black; University of Otago first year students welcomed to Dunedin as new citizens and not tourists; woman arrested for being drunk and disorderly on a…

British food safety authorities say about 1% of the beef products they have tested so far contain horse meat.

Victoria Racing club officials are delighted with a field of eight runners for Saturday's Lightning Stakes at Flemington which signals the start of a new campaign for the world's fastest...

New Zealand authorities say they have investigated nearly 200 British meat imports and none are connected with the horsemeat scandal.

A former meat inspector in New Caledonia has revealed that four years ago a butcher in the territory's north was found to have sold beef, which on analysis turned out...

A slaughterhouse and a meat firm in Britain have been raided by police and food safety officials probing alleged mislabelling of horsemeat as beef.

The authorities in Britain have discovered more cases of unlabelled horse meat in supermarket food.

Fans of the board game Monopoly have voted to replace one of the traditional eight tokens used to move around the board with.

A Waikato horse trainer has pleaded guilty to charges of importing performance-enhancing drugs.

Frustration is rising in parts of Queensland over a lack of assistance to deal with the aftermath of flooding in the Australian state.

The founders of a new equestrian sport in New Zealand say its first stadium show on Friday night should spur on its spread.

The minister responsible for sorting out the teachers' pay debacle has signalled that the Government is likely to stay with the problem-plagued system. Audio

The jockey Andrew Heffernan was disqualified from riding for 15 years and three English footballers were excluded from being involved in horse racing, following a British Horseracing Authority…

The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee is seeking public feedback on a new code of welfare for horses.

Bernard Tomic and Lleyton Hewitt gave local tennis fans some excitement before the Australian Open with victories in warm-up tournaments yesterday. Tomic captured his first ATP Tour title when he...

Rural fire crews were on high alert on Friday as nor'westers threatened to reignite parts of a grass fire near the Canterbury town of Prebbleton. Audio

A state of emergency has been declared in the Sakha Republic in Siberia against packs of wolves preying on reindeer herds and the hunting season has been extended for the whole year.

California lawmakers have vowed to close a loophole that allowed a man's rape conviction to be overturned because his victim was not married.

The Perth Wildcats coach coach Rob Beveridge says it's too soon to claim the National Basketball League is a two-horse race between the Wildcats and the New Zealand Breakers, even...