| Fri, 3 Sep 2010 Neighbours slam council over run-down buildings
By 5:30 AM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print | A "disgraceful" eyesore of run-down buildings opposite one of the country's top international hotels has angered an Auckland official, heritage campaigner, hotelier and neighbouring apartment owners. | Auckland Regiona... | The man who fooled everyone
By 5:30 AM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print | Loizos Michaels liked to call himself "The Phantom". | It was part of his arrogance but also true. He only ever introduced himself as "Michael". No one knew his surname for a long time and even now investigators are un... | All Blacks: Tour cull a taste of future task
By 5:30 AM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print | Graham Henry's whiteboard will be getting a great workout before the All Blacks' end-of-year tour. | Up to 25 names may be shuffled around as Henry, Wayne Smith and Steve Hansen sift backline contenders for the trip to... | Critic's Corner
| Leverage Tomorrow at 9 p.m., TNT | George Clooney's latest lovely, Elisabetta Canalis, guest stars in this season finale. What? Oh, you want the plotline, too? Timothy Hutton's Nate and his team of do-gooders go after a hedge fund manager who blah blah blah, and tries... | Revelations make Tony Blair's memoir a sales sensation
| LONDON: First-day sales for Tony Blair's memoir suggest his donation to the Royal British Legion might well exceed the pound stg. 4 million ($6.8m) advance he has already promised to hand on to the veterans' charity. | The British book chain Waterstone's sai... | Catastrophic blow to the right wing
| On Tuesday, the Iraq war was declared over by Barack Obama. As his troops return home, Iraqis are marginally freer than in 2003, and considerably less secure. Two million remain abroad as refugees from seven years of anarchy, with another 2 million internally displace... | In the Swat Valley, terror of the Taliban proves a fear worse than the floods
| THE floodwaters that ripped through Utror stripped bare a swath of lush, fertile land. Homes, schools and the village's bazaar disappeared, transformed into a grey, boulder-strewn lunar landscape. Yet for all the destructive force of the water, the locals are hau... | Blair's half-heartedness makes book spellbinding
| VALIANT in its way, this is the diary of a failure who half knows he failed, can't really hide it and isn't consistently bothered to try. | Tony Blair's admirers should study this account with care and sensitivity, and then back off from their attempts to bu... | Favourable verdict on court dramas
| IT has long been the view of this column that no one can make a really boring courtroom drama. | Silly ones, yes, unlikely and unsatisfactory ones, but never ones without some tension or interest. It has much to do with the confined space, the adversarial conditions, ... | We'd do well to get in early: mental health
| I WAS refreshed to read Jon Jureidini's article in Weekend Health ("Dodgy facts no path to mental health reform", August 7). | Underlying the political discussion of mental health is a theme that it is a catastrophic area that needs buckets of money to ... | Fish extinctions spell disaster
| GENEVA: Millions of Africans may lose a key source of livelihoods as a fifth of freshwater African species are threatened with extinction, according to the Red List of endangered species. | Scientists conducting a survey on 5167 African freshwater species found that a... | Allegiances and the Call of the Local
| CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Some identities compel people more than others. College reunions inspire more enthusiasm than graduate-school ones. Humans spend substantially more time reconvening with those who share their birth religion than their birth city. Women... | Attack in Tajikistan Highlights Fears of Militancy
| MOSCOW — A car rigged with explosives rammed into a police station in northern Tajikistan on Friday, wounding at least 25 people in an apparent suicide attack, Tajik police officials said. | Russian news agencies, citing unidentified Tajik government officials, ... | An Old Scourge Needs a Modern Solution
| Every 12 hours last year young men boarded motorized skiffs and hijacked vessels on the waterway used by 24,000 ships around the Horn of Africa. Pirate gangs have accrued $150 million in ransom to date, about $4 million per ship. Their take is likely to swell before y... | The Black Sea Need Not Be a Black Spot
| The Black Sea is a cradle of civilization, trade and cultures, but today it is also a region of unresolved conflicts, porous borders and rivalries. | Terrorism and insurgency are spreading across the North Caucasus, abetted by fighters from the Middle East and South A... | America Must Remain in Iraq
| Thomas Friedman’s comments on the Shiite-Sunni imbroglio are admirable. (“You ain’t seen this before,” Views, Sept. 2). Whether these two branches of Islam will be able to coexist peacefully is a question that only time can answer. But it is cl... | |
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