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[ad_1] World December 29, 2020 06:05 pm3 minutes to read Mary and James Mast have pleaded not guilty to the charges. Photo / Supplied The parents of a 4-year-old American girl allegedly killed by neighbors to eliminate a “demon” pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges related to the case. …

[ad_1] The coronavirus pandemic may not be the “big one” that experts have long feared, a World Health Organization official warned during the global health agency’s last virtual press conference of the year. Since the first reports of the new coronavirus began circulating nearly a year ago, the WHO has …

[ad_1] An Oamaru family has earned more than $ 18 million. Photo / New Zealand Herald With their minds “still spinning,” the Oamaru family, who won $ 18.25 million in the lottery on December 26, plan to make a difference with their winnings. The family has expressed their wish to …

[ad_1] French fashion designer Pierre Cardin possessed a wildly inventive artistic sensibility tempered by a heavy dose of business sense. She had no problem admitting that she was earning more from a pair of stockings than from a six-figure couture dress. Cardin, who died on Tuesday (Wednesday NZT) at age …

[ad_1] World Dec 29, 2020, 4:51 a.m.4 minutes to read Shoppers take over the shelves when the earthquake hits Croatia. A strong earthquake shook central Croatia on Tuesday (local time), destroying buildings and causing panicked people to flee to rubble-strewn streets in a city southeast of the capital. Authorities said …

[ad_1] French fashion designer Pierre Cardin, photographed in November 2016, welcomes the applause after a parade to commemorate 70 years of his creations, in Paris. Photo / AP French fashion designer Pierre Cardin possessed a wildly inventive artistic sensibility tempered by a heavy dose of business sense. She had no …

[ad_1] President Donald Trump is lashing out at Republicans in Congress after the House easily voted to override his veto on a defense policy bill. A total of 109 Republicans, including Wyoming Republican Liz Cheney, a member of the Republican leadership, joined with Democrats in passing the override, which would …

[ad_1] Only 1 percent of the Canterbury Museum’s collection is on display at a time. As part of a special series, reporter LEE KENNY and visual journalist JOHN KIRK-ANDERSON went behind the scenes to uncover the hidden treasures found in their vast archives. Museum staff could see that items were …

[ad_1] New Zealand charities that rely heavily on older donors could lose $ 1.4 billion annually as banks scrap checks over the next year. All of New Zealand’s big banks already have or plan to stop accepting checks next year, a move that has already raised the alarm that some …

[ad_1] World Dec 28, 2020 11:18 PMFast reading A nurse applies the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a healthcare worker in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Photo / AP Eight healthcare workers in Germany were accidentally injected five times the recommended dose of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine, Reuters reports. Four of the workers …