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Soccer: Phoenix fume over hand-ball goal
Ricki Herbert had no difficulty pointing to the critical moment in last night's controversial defeat to Sydney FC.

Hadron Collider to be closed amid fears of very big bang
CERN plans a 12-month shutdown to repair a design flaw that could break apart world's most expensive scientific experiment - the Large Hadron Collider

'British Classics' made with NZ meat
British food companies are selling products which contain meat from thousands of miles away but labelling them "British" or "traditional".

Teacher crushed in wheelie bin tried to share taxi
The NZ teacher crushed after crawling into an east Sussex wheelie bin following a night out earlier tried to share a taxi with two women he met at a pub, an inquest into his death hears.

McCartney's minimalism reflects new austerity
With their cashmere sweaters and polished sling-backs, models at the Paris collections brought the upscale, impeccably groomed New York uptown girl of the mid-Nineties to mind.

Ask Lonely Planet: Easter in the Andes
We're travelling to a family wedding in San Francisco next April with our two children (aged 1 and 3).

Madrid says bullfight 'high art' as debate rages
Matadors, philosophers and politicians in Spain are embroiled in a furious debate over the bloody but emblematic sport of bullfighting.

Portuguese ignored NZ Madeline McCann 'sighting' - police
NZ police defend their response after reports of a possible sighting of missing British girl Madeline McCann in a Dunedin shop.