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Travellers snap up new carrier's cheap airfares
More than 43,000 seats were sold within three days of Air Asia X's launch in New Zealand last week.
South Korea: The world's most macabre funfair
With tension rising on the Korean Peninsula, why is there a funfair and busloads of smiling tourists on the heavily militarised border?
Vietnam: Higher learning
A trip to Vietnam's mountainous and beautiful north allows visitors to experience authentic tribal life, writes Rob McFarland.
Yachting: Ainslie on top as Minoprio falls
Match racing world champion Ben Ainslie says the early demise of Adam Minoprio was the key moment of his successful campaign.
Yachting: Little mistakes cost Minoprio big
Adam Minoprio says it was just little mistakes at the wrong time that led to his shock ousting at the Monsoon Cup.
Karzai linked to Taleban releases
Staff at the US Embassy in Kabul are concerned about unauthorised releases of prisoners which have been happening.
Tennis: The pressure of one billion expectations
We like to think Richie McCaw has to deal with intense expectations but what about the hopes of a billion people?
Athletics: Life after Valerie for Hellier
Kirsten Hellier has taken the high road to China and is loving every minute of it.
Book Review: Saraswati Park
Set in Mumbai, Saraswati Park is a vivid portrait of intergenerational family dynamics in an ever-changing, modern day India.
Nip-tuck saves $70,000
The number of Kiwis travelling to Southeast Asia for cosmetic surgery has soared in the past year.
Dicaprio, Putin and the all-star plot to save tigers
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and actor Leonardo DiCaprio are an unlikely pairing of figureheads in the fight to save the tiger.
Korean conflict - What the global media is saying
What the international media is saying about North Korea's latest act of aggression.