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[ad_1] Police are urging drivers to put their phones away and watch their speed when they return home from their vacation. Eleven people have already lost their lives on the roads of New Zealand in this holiday period, more than double the four lives lost last summer vacation. The latest …

[ad_1] OPINION: In Australia, New Zealand and around the world, Covid-19 has turned luxury and semi-luxury hotels into quarantine facilities. Among the four and five star hotels reported to have been used for temporary detention are the Intercontinental, Marriott, Hyatt Regency, Sheraton Grand, Sofitel Wentworth and Novotel Darling Harbor in …

[ad_1] WARWICK SMITH / Things Isabelle Ning, 11, contemplates her next move at the New Zealand Chess Championship at Palmerston North. She is too young to look The Queen’s GambitBut it’s okay, Isabelle Ning is concentrating on her own movements. The 11-year-old is the defending national youth chess champion and …

[ad_1] Screenshot / Somerset Police Department Police Officer Matt Lima of the Somerset Police Department in Massachusetts, USA. Christmas is a time of giving, and that is exactly what a United States police officer did to help a family in need during the holiday season. Last month, Massachusetts Police Officer …

[ad_1] Up to 30 firefighters and two helicopters continue to fight a vegetation fire, which has spread across 1.5 hectares of land in Northland on Monday afternoon. Fire and Emergency NZ was called to the fire at 12:40 p.m. Sunday, shift manager Paul Radden said. The fire is in rural …

[ad_1] Todd McInturf / AP A small plane flying from Georgia crashed into a home in southeast Michigan, killing the pilot and two family members. A small plane flying from Georgia crashed into a home in southeast Michigan, killing the pilot and two family members. The victims were David S. …

[ad_1] The arrival of a highly communicable Covid-19 strain to the shores of New Zealand from the UK has experts warning that the country’s quarantine process will be put to the test. On Sunday, health authorities announced that six cases of Covid-19 were found to coincide with a recently identified …

[ad_1] Blame Covid-19 travel restrictions or Brexit but whatever the cause, some British citizens trying to return home to various European countries over the weekend have been banned from boarding flights. The airlines rejected documents that before Brexit had been valid proof of the status of the British as residents …

[ad_1] Gerry Marsden, the British singer who was instrumental in turning a song from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel in one of the great anthems of the football world, he has died. He was 78 years old. His friend Pete Price said on Instagram after speaking with Marsden’s family …

[ad_1] Gerwyn Price has bagged a $ 1 million prize as the first Welshman to win the Professional Darts Corporation world title, just seven years after leaving professional rugby in the 1980s. The 35-year-old picked up the Sid Waddell Trophy and became the world number after beating two-time Scottish world …