NATIONAL football coach Ricki Herbert and captain Ryan Nelsen received New Year’s Honours on Friday after New Zealand defied expectations at the World Cup in South Africa. Herbert was named Companion to the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year’s Honours List, with Nelsen becoming an Officer of the New Zealand Order of […]
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One in five Britons to live to 100
MORE than 10 million people living in Britain today, almost a fifth of the population, will reach their 100th birthday, the Department for Work and Pensions said on Thursday. More than half of these future centenarians are currently aged between 16 and 50. The rise in life expectancy means many millions of Britons will spend […]
Queen Elizabeth II becomes great grandmother
BUCKINGHAM Palace says Queen Elizabeth has become a great-grandmother. Autumn Phillips, wife of the queen’s grandson, Peter Phillips, has given birth to a baby girl. The baby is the queen’s first great-grandchild and is 12th in line to the throne. A statement issued on Thursday by the palace says Autumn Phillips gave birth at Gloucestershire […]
Girl 4, battles rare ovarian cancer
IMPISHLY posing for the camera, little Makayla Worrall’s smile belies a battle no four-year-old should face. Severe abdominal pain five months ago turned out to be ovarian cancer, which very rarely presents in children. Her stomach blew up like a pregnant belly, measuring 68cm around the girth, and she was constantly curled up on the […]
Israeli companies to help build Palestinian city
ABOUT 20 Israeli suppliers will help build the first modern Palestinian city in the West Bank but only after promising they will not use products or services from Israeli settlements, the project’s developer said on Tuesday. The announcement angered the Jewish settlers, who accused the suppliers of caving in to an international boycott of settlement […]
US library names 25 films to preservation list
A RANGE of movies from comedy Airplane! to George Lucas’ The Empire Strikes Back and 1906 short film A Trip Down Market Street were named to the US National Film Registry on Tuesday, ensuring their preservation for future generations. Among others are horror film The Exorcist, political drama All the President’s Men, 1959 African-American cultural […]
LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian to wed
LEANN Rimes and Eddie Cibrian are getting married. Rimes’ publicist, Rhett Usry, confirmed on Tuesday that the country singer and the actor ‘were engaged over the holidays and are very happy.’ Both were married to other people when they fell in love with each other. Rimes, 28, and Cibrian, 37, co-starred in the 2009 Lifetime […]
Jimmy Carter helps release loggerhead sea turtle
JIMMY Carter has helped release a rehabilitated loggerhead sea turtle during a family vacation in the Florida Keys. The former president participated in the release of Danger, a 46kg loggerhead turtle, into the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday. The turtle had spent three months at The Turtle Hospital. Mr Carter also toured the facility, which is […]
Nobel laureate Liu celebrates 55th birthday in prison
JAILED Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo marked his 55th birthday on Tuesday in a prison in north-east China, prompting renewed calls from rights groups for his immediate release. Liu was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Christmas Day last year on subversion charges after co-authoring Charter 08, a bold petition calling for political reform […]
6 held in China chemical wine scandal
SIX people have been detained, several wineries shut down and bottles pulled from shelves in China after authorities found wine containing several chemical additives, state media said on Monday. The incident in Changli county in the central province of Hebei – an area dubbed ‘China’s Bordeaux’ – is the latest food safety scare to rattle […]