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World youth champion shot putter New Zealander Jackson Gill has qualified for Sunday's final at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. A monsoon-like storm brought a premature end to the...

The prestigious New York based movie entertainment magazine, Variety, has praised a documentary about the life of a Hawke's Bay family.

A proponent of political reform in Solomon Islands says he's positive that political leaders will behave responsibly during the post-election negotiations, despite the failure of the last parliament…

The Environmental Risk Management Authority, ERMA, is recommending banning the use of the insecticide, trichlorfon, on plants and crops.

The Accident Compensation Corporation is appealing against a court ruling that could force it to restore weekly compensation to about 170 people. Most were suffering problems with injuries they…

New Zealand horse racing commentator, Alby Gain, has announced his retirement from race calling after more than 30 years in the racing industry. Gain made his first call in the mid ...

Sweden has celebrated a royal wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and a commoner. More than 1200 guests attended the ceremony, which was Sweden's first royal wedding since 1976.

Te Papa will lend the skeleton of the legendary racehorse Phar Lap to an exhibition in Australia marking the 150th anniversary of the Melbourne Cup.

Sam Querrey joined a prestigious group of American winners of the Queens's Club grasscourt tennis title when he boomed down 15 aces to beat friend Mardy Fish in the final ...

Rescuers are searching for survivors of a flash flood that tore through campsites in a remote forest in the southern US state of Arkansas, killing at least 18 people and injuring 20 others.

The Victorian Racing Club says there is no threat to this year's Melbourne Cup carnival despite track damage from a rare turf beetle.

New Zealand's Guy Thomas has created history as the first rider ever to win all three grand prix on one horse, taking the Triple Crown of showjumping on Peterbilt in northern ...

The Kaimanawa wild horse round-up has finished for 2010, and will now take place every two years.

Friday's headlines: schoolgirl rugby match called off after brawl involving players, spectators and reserves; child wellbeing in NZ rated among worst in the developed world; Cuba St Carnival cancelled…

The Pan Pacific veterinary conference in Brisbane has heard the international movement of horses is behind the spread of equine influenza.

Heavy rain in North Otago set off a major rockslide blocking the entrance to one of the country's best known rock art sites at Takiroa.

The Waikato trainer Graeme Rogerson has become the first person in New Zealand to train 2,000 winning horses. Pocket Diary, ridden by Opie Bosson, won Race 6 today at the Whangarei ...

The annual cull of Kaimanawa horses will take place as soon as there is a weather window of two fine days.

A Canterbury horse trainer cleared of stealing five horses from her former employer says she should never have been taken to court.

The racing community in Rangiora in north Canterbury is raising money in a bid to reopen their racecourse which was closed three years ago after a serious accident. Audio