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Why butter prices might not fall as fast as they rose
The price of butter has been one of the big consumer issues of this year.

Oh. What. Fun. is a light, frivolous Christmas comedy - about motherhood and female rage
Prime Video's most recent foray into the festive season genre has Michelle Pfeiffer as a frazzled woman attempting to plan the perfect Christmas.

Positive reactions to the Rugby World Cup draw from Fiji, Tonga
The Rugby World Cup, to be played across Australia from October 2027, will feature 24 teams, drawn into six pools of four teams each.

New primary English, maths curriculum results exceeding expectations, ministry says
David Seymour suggested Labour's Willow-Jean Prime was considering a new job as an actor, during a session on the new primary school English and maths curriculums.

This Intel Core i9 mini PC with a whopping 32GB RAM is $300 off today
Mini PCs are proof that if you want a solid computer with rock-solid performance, you don’t need to spend a fortune. Why pay a premium on the portability of a laptop? Or extra power that you won’t use in a desktop tower? Get more for less with something like this...

NASA spots huge sunspot complex facing Earth. What that means for us
One of the largest sunspot formations of the past several years is currently visible on the sun. The group, catalogued as AR 4294-4298, is so large that several of the dark regions exceed the Earth’s diameter. According to Newsweek, these are the largest sunspots in a decade. With binoculars or a...

Polkadot Gains 9% After Breaking Key $2.25 Resistance

Sony's Blockchain Partner Launches Institutional-Grade Stablecoin for Soneium

Nebius leverages Microsoft, Meta contracts for AI expansion

Marvell to Buy Celestial AI; Shares Jump on Bullish Remarks

Government puts $15m towards weapons and equipment for Ukraine
The amount brings New Zealand's total monetary contributions for the country's war efforts to more than $53m, more than half of it for weapons and ammunition.

Calls for urgent action over deer control
There's a lot of hand-wringing but few answers when it comes to culling the rapidly expanding deer population.

Impossible to meet Paris Agreement targets without buying offshore carbon credits - experts
The government's claim it can meet emissions targets without writing "billion-dollar cheques" is implausible, experts say.

What's going on with Auckland house prices?
Auckland is 22.9 percent below its peak and "lagging behind everyone else", an expert says.

Check out Intel’s official overclocking lab
When you think of overclockers, you probably imagine some obsessive tech nerd coming up with an elaborate contraption to boost CPU or graphics card speed. And that’s absolutely true… but sometimes said obsessive tech nerd works for a company like Intel. We got a tour inside Intel’s Overclocking Lab, and...

The Google Home app won’t let you “Call Home” anymore
They say you can’t go home again, and for the moment, it appears you can’t call home to your Google displays or speakers anymore either. Google Home users on Reddit have been noticing that the “Call Home” button in the Google Home app, which lets you directly call your Google Nest...

‘Women should be able to walk without fear’: Man jailed indefinitely after attacking two strangers
The two women were attacked nearly a year apart.

Defective switch caused Air NZ Airbus A320 emergency landing in Auckland - report
The incident saw the flight from Wellington to Sydney make an unplanned landing in December 2024.

Misha Glenny to replace Bragg as In Our Time host
Bragg stepped down in September after more than 27 years at the helm of the BBC Radio 4 show.