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Christmas lights may look pretty on the tree but caution is being urged when handling them. The European Commission has found 30 percent of sets are so poorly constructed they could give an electric shock or start a fire...Mark Wogan...

by Gina Serpe Fame Pictures, Inc Sex sells...But apparently not as much as a high note-hitting underdog from Scotland. Fresh off her chart domination of the U.K., Susan Boyle has gone all Braveheart on our musical shores, nearly quadrupling the...

Panasonic, the world's biggest maker of plasma televisions, will invest US$1 billion ($1.37 billion) by 2012 in a plan to make outfitting environmentally friendly "green" homes and buildings its core business, an executive said.

Former Arts Centre Trust Board member Ian Lochhead resigned as Canterbury University's representative because he was unhappy with the board's direction and decisions. Asked yesterday if he had leaked sensitive trust board information to opponents of the university's proposed National...

The first time Ron and Carol Nageotte attended a Friends With Compassion meeting in 2004, they were “petrified.” Friends With Compassion is a support group for families who have lost a child of any age. Ron's son, Eric Nageotte-Lowe, had...

Duck ran amok at Channel Nine's Christmas party at St Kilda's Hotel Barkly on Tuesday. Business cards went into a barrel for the door prizes, drawn by Livinia Nixon and Russell Gilbert , the highlight being a ''limited edition'' Hey...

A renewed bout of global economic recovery optimism, which was helped by buoyant Chinese manufacturing figures yesterday, gave miners the biggest boost on the local market, with the raw materials index surging 2.1 per cent ahead. Overall, the All Ordinaries...

Kaikoura tourism company Whale Watch is demanding seismic tests for oil be conducted 10 nautical miles (about 18km) away from its area of operation after concerns of the effect the tests will have on local marine life. Crown Minerals had...

Suggestions a murder accused had been framed for the murder of a 14-year-old drug dealer "don't wash", a crown lawyer has told a High Court jury. Nathan Tuiti Reo Mutunga Williams' lawyers have argued that he was not involved in...