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It was like a replay of the sinking of OneAustralia off San Francisco in 1995. The New York Yacht Club's Young America
yacht split almost in two while racing in heavy wind today.
Disaster struck the New York Yacht Club's challenge for the Americas Cup today as Young America split almost in half in
moderate seas on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf. Here too is a full report on team standings, points, who races who and the
weather.
Warning Lord Of The Rings Spoiler photos…. courtesy of Scoop’s content partner http://www.theonering.net/ Scoop brings
the first published pictures of Froddo and Bilbo Baggins house, in the Waikato.
More than three weeks after Scoop first published a picture of, allegedly, the home of a Hobbit from the Lord of the
Rings, and the day after we published aerial photos of the Waikato set the Dominion News Paper have run two highly
dubious – and probably ...
A TV 3 CM Research Poll shows National slumping in support down five per cent to 28 per cent with Labour gaining four
per cent to 41 per cent.
The following pictures show the inside of the set for the town of Bree from the Lord of The Rings Trilogy which began
shooting in New Zealand yesterday under the direction of Peter Jackson.
The challenges of globalisation are on the agenda of leaders from more than 140 nations attending the three-day
Socialist International conference in Paris. John Howard reports.
The second Round Robin of the Louis Vuitton Cup (the Challenger Selection Series for the XXX America's Cup) started
Today.
The wheels temporarily came off the ACT machine over the weekend when National Radio played a pre-recorded interview
with party leader Richard Prebble on ACT’s views on funding for the arts. Jonathan Hill writes.
Today the US Senate Foreign Affairs committee voted to approve a new Ambassador to NZ. Former Senator Carol
Moseley-Braun now awaits only a final vote in the senate to confirm her appointment.
Last nights TV One Colmar Brunton Poll of Wellington Central has revealed a cliffhanger race for the seat of parliament
with ACT leader Richard Prebble on 47 per cent and Labour’s Marian Hobbs on 48 per cent of the electorate vote.
ID4 has sent me some startling news! This may not be accurate, but ID4 does have some expierence in the field of CGI
art, he first sent me this:
Life in New Zealand is so much more difficult these days than it is in England. At least that's what our English friend
Dr Cullen must be thinking.
The Government's mishandling of the new drivers' licence regime has turned nearly quarter of a million New Zealanders
into 'criminals', Labour transport spokesperson Harry Duynhoven said today.
United New Zealand leader, Hon Peter Dunne, says Immigration Minister Tuariki Delamere is guilty of the most amazing
double standards by running a racist Immigration Department abroad, while pandering at home to Maori radicals like Tame
Iti.
Most of us think 45 isn't really old and it's strange to call them older workers. But, according to the Australian
National Congess on Ageing, bosses are unfairly disadvantaging older people. John Howard reports.
On the night a poll was released showing Wellington Central to be a knife edge battle – with Labour’s Marion Hobbs on
48% to Richard Prebbles 47% - Clyde Quay School was the venue for another round of bait the candidates.
Labour deputy Leader Michael Cullen said the Provisional National Accounts released today contained appalling news for
the economy.
The nuclear issue is back on the political agenda with Alliance leader Jim Anderton today challenging Act and National
to spell out their intentions.
Having seemingly scored the internet Scoop of the week with his pictures of BREE AT FIRST LIGHT Scoop contacted the
Hobbit who scooped the world and asked him if he had any more snaps from his visit to Bree….