Mahu Wairau, 42, had earlier admitted the January 21 burglary of Lorneville Superliquor and the January 22 burglary of Southern Fish Supply.
He had also admitted unlawfully possessing a sawn-off shotgun, threatening to kill, resisting police, driving while disqualified and refusing to permit a blood specimen to be taken at Invercargill on January 22, and driving [...]
“I turned down several pieces that were up for Oscars this year. But I have no regrets. There was a reason I passed on them.” For this chat, Cooper is living up to the label that Variety gave him years ago, that “hang-dog character actor of stage, films and television.” [...]
This pleasing rise in performance included six New Zealand masters records.
The two womens masters aspirants for the 2008 masters world championships in Greece in September are tantalisingly close to their required qualification totals to earn selection.
The masters Wendy Stevens lifting in the 50-54-year category bettered all her own New Zealand records to be just 3kg [...]
The author has admitted ranting at police officers, but took the witness stand yesterday to tell a judge that he was an advocate for womens rights.
He said he was flabbergasted at the way police had concocted charges against him in an attempt to put a good man down.
Duff, 57, told Taupo District Court yesterday that [...]
The author has admitted ranting at police officers, but took the witness stand yesterday to tell a judge that he was an advocate for womens rights.
He said he was flabbergasted at the way police had concocted charges against him in an attempt to put a good man down.
Duff, 57, told Taupo District Court yesterday that [...]
Mr Cunliffe today announced he had approved Telecoms plan for a three-way split in its operations.
Telecom had been required to put forward the plan as part of the Governments decision in 2006 to reregulate aspects of the industry to boost competition and investment in broadband infrastructure.
The amended plan- legally enforceable from today- breaks Telecom into [...]
“You’re going to hear them on more than one occasion celebrating the deaths of American soldiers.”Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi and Wassim I. Mazloum are accused of conspiring to kill or maim people outside the United States, including military personnel in Iraq. They face a maximum penalty of life in prison if convicted.Amawi’s attorney, [...]
It wasnt easy for them.
Unusually, heats were in the evening and finals in the morning.
This was to mirror the strange Beijing Olympics scheduling that accommodates big-spending American television. The New Zealand swimmers faced cut-throat pressure. They had to turn up and do the qualifying times, or they didnt get a plane ticket to Beijing.
Its good [...]
The team pooled data from previous studies in an attempt to summarize what%26rsquo;s known about growth hormone%26rsquo;s effects on athletic performance. Although this analysis may not reflect the way athletes actually take the drug illicitly, the lead author of the study, Hau Liu, MD, said with growth hormone in the news, it was a good [...]
Tests on mice show that diacetyl, a component of artificial butter flavouring, can cause a condition known as lymphocytic bronchiolitis, said the team at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health.
The condition can lead to obliterative bronchiolitis — or popcorn lung — a rare and debilitating disease seen [...]
