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From Wrexham to the World Cup: Liberato Cacace ready for football's biggest stage
All White Liberato Cacace reflects on life at football's most talked-about club as he prepares for the biggest tournament of his career.

Fall in dairy auction prices mars start of season
The important whole milk powder price, which influences dairy farmer payouts in New Zealand, fell 2.2 percent to US$3706 a tonne.

Iconic student radio station to depart Auckland University after 57 years
95bFM has announced it will relocate to K Road, after 57 years on the University of Auckland campus.

Driver allegedly found with cannabis, cash and nitrous oxide after failing to stop
Police say officers located the vehicle in Kelston after it allegedly failed to stop in Glen Eden.

‘They’ll take a reasonable offer’: Town hopes to buy its golf course back from developer
The township of Pegasus and a housing developer look set to go head to head over a beloved golf course, as the community sets up a war chest with the backing of local and national politicians.

Legendary giant squid turns up in deep canyons off Western Australia as scientists uncover 226 marine species

Amazon Prime Day returns on June 23–26: Everything you should know
Prime Day is coming back this year and it’s landing earlier than you might’ve thought: instead of July per usual, Amazon is moving Prime Day up to June 23rd to 26th this year. At the same time, it’s keeping the same four-day sale format that it introduced las tyear. That means...

I think we just spotted our first Intel Nova Lake motherboard at Computex 2026
Gigabyte has a PC motherboard on display at Computex that’s so mysterious it’s almost certainly sporting one of Intel’s forthcoming Nova Lake motherboards. While we can’t know for sure, the odd lack of labels on the Aorus ‘board suggests its Intel CPU is something nobody’s ready to talk about yet. PCWorld’s...

‘We took a punt’: McCullum recalls England bowler from wilderness for first Black Caps test
Shoaib Bashir has been selected as England’s only spin option for the Lord’s test.

Exclusive-SpaceX targets $1.75 trillion valuation including greenshoe option in record IPO, sources say

Microsoft is turning to AI to combat cyber threats

Little change in supermarket competition over past year, Commerce Commission report finds
The major grocery retailers - Foodstuffs and Woolworths - still have 82 percent of the market, just 2 percent down from 2020.

New Oranga Tamariki boss on how she plans to use a Budget boost
Oranga Tamariki has an extra $184 million from the Budget to better respond to reports of harm and increase support for high-needs children.

AI, the new attack vector
AI is quickly becoming a powerful vector for bad actors who wish to compromise an organisation's security.

WOMAD festival cancelled in Glasgow over low ticket sales
The global festival was set to be held in Glasgow for the first time on 3 and 4 July.

Watch: All Blacks great, 44, farewelled with haka by French club with retirement not obvious
Ma'a Nonu has played for several years longer than most professionals normally would.

Has severe weather changed the way you live?
Floods, slips, road closures and evacuations have become familiar parts of life for many communities.

PHOTO ESSAY: Fear grips Peru as crime surges ahead of presidential runoff on Sunday

Fear shadows Peru’s runoff vote as extortion and killings surge nationwide

New Jerusalem Pride March route heads towards Knesset under 'Demanding Change' slogan

IDF kills Oct. 7 terrorist who kidnapped Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eliya Cohen, Alon Ohel, Or Levy

Microsoft says new quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable than predecessor
The tech giant predicts it will have a quantum computer that can solve commercially useful problems by the end of the decade.

Microsoft’s Scout AI agent is aimed directly at your workplace
The biggest challenge with personal AI agents is often figuring out what to do with them. In a home setting, that can be surprisingly tricky. Take a 24/7 AI agent like Google’s Gemini Spark, which can–on paper–plan meals, manage your calendar, and perform other household tasks. But while Spark is capable of...

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Microsoft debuts in-house AI models, as it looks to ease reliance on OpenAI