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Lotto Powerball: The numbers are in for $12 million jackpot draw
Time to check your numbers.

Camera captures Swiss repeat offender speeding duck
The bird was caught going 52km/h an hour in a 30km/h zone.

Waiuku rental left in squalor: Tenant fined $11,383 for mess including cat faeces
The landlord vomited from the overpowering smell inside the home.

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'Go back to Ukraine': War refugees complain of abuse in Poland
Dozens say they have been abused in public, bullied in schools and seen increasing xenophobic material online.

Scared and malnourished - footage from Gaza shows plight of children and aftermath of Israeli strike
Israel says it targeted top Hamas militants hiding among civilians at the Khan Younis hospital.

Te Pati Maori receive ‘harshest punishment Privileges Committee’s ever handed out’
The co-leaders of Te Pati Maori are set to be stood down from Parliament without pay for three weeks.

Regulatory Standards Bill will lead to 'inappropriate, dangerous' powers, claimants say
An urgent hearing into Act's Regulatory Standards Bill say it will diminish the Crown's obligations to the Treaty of Waitangi.

Smith throws two nine-darters before final whitewash
Ross Smith demolishes Brendan Dolan 8-0 as he wins the 16th Players Championship of the year - having thrown two nine-darters on the way to the final.

'It drags up horrible memories' - the dark side of Lions judgement day
For the lucky few there are congratulations and celebratory photoshoots. But what is it like for those players overlooked by the British and Irish Lions?

Biden aide hits back at book alleging cover-up of his 'deterioration'
Biden's condition during his 2024 presidential campaign was said to be so poor that aides discussed putting him in a wheelchair.

'My partner can't cope with child abusers on his prison wing'
Families speak of their fears for inmates at HMP Five Wells in Northamptonshire.

Champion cyclist sentenced over Olympian wife's car death
Melissa Hoskins died after she was struck by a car driven by her husband Rohan Dennis in 2023.

South Korea plane crash victims' families file complaint
A criminal complaint was filed against 15 people, including the transport minister, for negligence.

Wild chimpanzees filmed using forest 'first aid'
The research builds on the discovery that chimps seek out and eat certain plants to self-medicate.

Will this woman be the first Briton to walk on the Moon?
The BBC meets astronaut Rosemary Coogan who is training at Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas.