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Cutting fuel taxes will not halt electric trains: National

East Timor rebel leader surrenders

<i>Editorial:</i> Strategic asset only if it suits

Anger over Dalai Lama film

Heroin: Currency of death

<i>NZ Stocks:</i> Offshore selling pushes market down

Airport law doesn't apply to Vector deal, Cullen says

Divers caught in current lost for 40 hours

NZ passports snatched in anti-counterfeit sting

<i>Sideswipe:</i> Tuesday

<i>NZ Stocks:</i> Air NZ dives, oil rises

Himalayan Trust to get humanitarian award

Bhutan: Being blessed with a large wooden phallus

Today I was blessed by a monk wielding a large wooden phallus. Apparently this Bhutanese blessing has proved remarkably successful in promoting fertility.

Navy tanker's days numbered

Violence disrupts pro-China rally

The man whom time forgot

<i>Mike Moore:</i> Nothing more vital than world's food

<i>In the women's mags:</i> Angelina says 'no more babies' after mid-air scare