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A woman being assaulted by a man was rescued by a group of young men in central Christchurch early today.

Waikato police say a man who stepped in front of a petrol tanker and was critically injured last night may have been affected by alcohol.

Michael Ballack believes that Chelsea's elimination from the Champions League triggered a late season domestic charge which could end with the London club's first ever league and cup double.

A player in the 1956 New Zealand Maori team has claimed that a government minister told them to lose the match against the Springboks to prevent All Blacks sides being barred from South Africa.

North Rodney residents could use protest action to block traffic getting to Auckland City if the Government ignores their plea not to be merged into the new city council.

A woman was held up by an armed man at an automatic teller machine on Auckland's North Shore just after midday today, police say.

A third fault on Wellington's rail network has further inconvenienced commuters, with a signal and points failure around 11am seeing trains replaced by buses between Plimmerton and Paraparaumu.

Thieves made off with a home-built catamaran in Palmerston North at the weekend.

An Auckland businessman refused service at a golf club bar because he was wearing a Sikh turban has been sent a written apology.

The Takeovers Panel is investigating electricity network company Horizon Energy Distribution after a request by Marlborough Lines Ltd, which failed in an attempted takeover in September.

Crusaders hooker Corey Flynn has been given the all-clear to take his place on the reserve bench for Saturday's Super 14 rugby match against the Blues in Christchurch.

Crown Research Institutes (CRIs) are pleased with a report calling for them to get more direct funding and work under clearer accountability.

There is so much pressure for more than $10 billion of new infrastructure in Auckland, such as a second harbour crossing and an airport rail link, that not all of it can be built at the same time, a report said today.

Telecom still has a few years of pain ahead in the scrap for the telecommunications market and faces a mammoth job in limiting the damage done when its much vaunted XT network crashed, says one analyst.

Convicted armed robber Kevin Polwart, has had another nine months added to the sentence he was serving before his escape from Auckland Prison at Paremoremo in December.

Maori who want to move back to ancestral land will now be able to get a $200,000 loan from Kiwibank, with no deposit, to build or buy a home.