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A group of Chinese Muslims detained for years at the Guantanamo Bay military prison should be allowed to settle in the United States, an exiled leader of the ethnic minority said Wednesday.
A New Zealand biotech company began a trial Thursday of an experimental treatment for diabetes in which cells from newborn pigs will be implanted into eight human volunteers.
New Zealand's national airline has adopted a cheeky way to encourage passengers to watch its in-flight safety video: The cabin crew's uniforms are nothing but body paint.
Australia and New Zealand announced Thursday a non-lethal whale research expedition to the Antarctic, a direct challenge to Japan's research program that kills up to 1,000 whales a year.
The government lifted infrastructure spending by nearly 8 billion New Zealand dollars ($5 billion) to support jobs over five years in its annual budget Thursday as it more than doubles borrowing to steer the economy through the global recession.
For 22 New Zealand teenagers, it was the trip of a lifetime: three weeks in Mexico practicing Spanish and visiting the pyramids of Oaxaca and other famous sites.
New Zealand's prime minister said Monday that he wants an exit strategy before sending the country's elite Special Air Service combat troops back to Afghanistan as the U.S. has requested.
A hatchling of a rare reptile with lineage dating back to the dinosaur age has been found in the wild on the New Zealand mainland for the first time in about 200 years, a wildlife official said Thursday.
This little town is in the dark and proud of it.
It was less than a Great Escape. Two New Zealand prisoners who were handcuffed together as they fled a courthouse foiled their own getaway when they ran to opposite sides of a light pole, slammed into each other and fell to the ground. Jailers nabbed them as they struggled to their feet.
A captive reptile in New Zealand has unexpectedly become a father at the ripe old age of 111 after receiving treatment for a cancer that made him hostile toward prospective mates.
Police in New Zealand nabbed a man who was trying to crack a bar's safe after posting security camera footage of the act on the Internet networking site Facebook.
New Zealand's battered economy faces a year of stagnation with no recovery in sight until 2010, the government said Thursday, as it warned tens of thousands of workers will lose their jobs.
Police in New Zealand nabbed a burglar after posting security camera footage of him trying to crack a bar's safe on the Internet networking site Facebook.
Air New Zealand has tested a passenger jet powered partially with oil from a plum-sized fruit known as jatropha, in efforts to reduce its carbon footprint and cut its fuel bill.
A court has declared bankrupt the dairy at the center of China's deadly tainted milk scandal, one of the firm's owners said — a development lawyers said adds to concerns about how and when those sickened by the doctored products will be compensated.
New Zealand's central bank slashed its key interest rate by 1.5 percentage points to 5.0 percent Thursday — its biggest move yet in the fight against the global financial crisis and sharply weakening growth.
A radical conservationist said Wednesday he will not shy away from violent confrontation with Japanese whalers, even though his group will be alone in tracking this season's hunt in the remote, ice-strewn Antarctic Ocean.
New Zealand's dairy farmers, a mainstay of the isolated South Pacific nation's exports, face a 24 percent fall in payments for milk this year because of slumping world prices, a new blow for an economy already in recession.
Researchers studying a rare and endangered species of penguin have uncovered a previously unknown species that disappeared about 500 years ago.
John Key became New Zealand's conservative new prime minister Wednesday and underscored the economy as his top priority, planning to head for a Pacific Rim summit the following day to discuss the global financial crisis.
New Zealand entered a new era of conservative rule Sunday, with incoming Prime Minister John Key promising to be a moderate amid fears some of the country's policies on global warming and indigenous people could be rolled back.
A rare reptile with lineage dating back to the dinosaur age has been found nesting on the New Zealand mainland for the first time in about 200 years, officials said Friday.
Doctors removed a tumor from an East Timorese baby that was almost one-third the child's body weight during a life-saving operation in New Zealand, officials said Thursday.
A rebellious New Zealand Maori tribe entered into negotiations with the government Thursday in a bid to gain autonomy over its land.
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