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Job losses spread beyond Qantas

Damage from the collapse of Qantas New Zealand spread to contractors yesterday, costing at least 120 workers their jobs. Workers in companies that supplied services to the airline, which called in receivers early on Saturday, have joined the 1100 airline employees...

New Zealander defies hostage takers and sticks to his TV

An Auckland man in the Istanbul hotel where Chechen gunmen seized 120 hostages watched the whole drama unfold on his television yesterday....

A million names still on database

Names and addresses of almost everyone who paid their broadcasting fee are being stored in a huge database even though the fee has been scrapped....

New Zealand News

• Data leakers promise action

• 'Stingy'Blues upset waiters

• Police team scouring creek for missing boy

• Help for families, POWs

• Broker faces music for lethal prank

• Jetski fatality runs counter to improving safety record

• Three accused of defrauding oil giant

• Profits in city links ripe for picking

World News

• Queen's man republican at heart

• Free trade campaign survives talks protest

• Brazilian drug lord claims innocence

• Pro-Chechen gunmen take hostages at Turkish hotel

• Palestinian suicide bomber brings mayhem

• Supermarket king tops Gates in world rich list

Business News

• Meridian spends $100m on transtasman hydro assets

• Qantas ready to swoop on profitable routes

• Telecom quashes Xtra sale talk

• Real progress but now Bush has to deliver

• Dialogue:

Resource Management law needs immediate review

• Dialogue: Oil wheels for smoother ride

• Dialogue:

Local communities bear cost

IT News

• Free sites paying the price

• Kiwi innovation makes its mark

• IT Capital chief seeks fresh fields

• Xtra may use court to get off blacklist

• Infinity scans horizons for bigger team

• Borland shakeup was imperative: president

• Connectivity means a lot if you need to be mobile

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