Queenstown boxer Richie Hadlow has pulled out of his first professional bout after a brain scan found an abnormality but he remains positive and is not thinking his career is over. Hadlow was due to fight Dunedin's Ricky Curline in the undercard of the ...-- https://www.odt.co.nz/sport/boxing/hadlow-pulls-out-after-scan

ALDEN WILLIAMS & SUPPLIED. How Auckland's waterfront will change by the 2021 America's Cup. GETTY IMAGES. More teams are putting their hands up to try to win the America's Cup off Emirates Team New Zealand.-- http://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-newspapers/central-north-island/sport/sport-region-6459/109163316/Maltas-historic-challenge-for-Americas-Cup-confirmed-as-squeeze-on-bases-intensifies

Lawyers for Chris Dawson — the man accused of the most famous murder in Australia — indicated yesterday he will enter a not guilty plea as he faced court over the probable death of his wife Lyn in 1982. They said the 70-year-old introverted former ...-- https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/accused-killer-chris-dawson-reported-seeing-his-missing-wife-on-2006-episode-of-antiques-roadshow/news-story/ed116f577e34611b2022608c1adb3cb0

China has demanded that Canada release an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei who was arrested in a case that compounds tensions with the US and threatens to complicate trade talks. Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, ...-- https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/109169179/timing-of-huawei-cfo-arrest-is-awkward-china-demands-her-release

Destiny Church says the Department of Corrections is breaching the Treaty of Waitangi by refusing to let it into prisons. About 2000 people crowded the front lawn of Parliament yesterday afternoon demanding the church's Man Up and Legacy programmes be ...and more »-- https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/destiny-church-complains-waitangi-tribunal-over-prison-programmes

The latest Kiwi blockbuster has not received the shining reviews that were predicted. Mortal Engines, produced by Sir Peter Jackson from Lord of the Rings fame has been dubbed as lacking 'spark' and 'direction.' The fantasy science fiction film has ...-- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id%3D1501119%26objectid%3D12172935

International cricket returns to the Bay Oval with the first of New Zealand A's three match 50-over series against India A at the ground over the next five days. Bay of Plenty's Corey Anderson, who will captain the New Zealand side in the three day ...-- https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/194985-nz-aindia-a-bay-oval-tripleheader-begins-today.html

The 76th Golden Globe Awards will see Nicole Kidman compete with Lady Gaga, Melissa McCarthy, Glenn Close and Rosamund Pike for the Best Actress award. Nominations for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual ceremony, which honours ...-- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id%3D1501119%26objectid%3D12172842

A needle has been reportedly found in a strawberry in Tauranga. Strawberries in plastic container. Photo: 123RF. Police said they received the report yesterday and have referred the matter to the Ministry of Primary Industries. Last week, police said ...-- https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/377690/needle-reportedly-found-in-strawberry-in-tauranga

Shaun Johnson reckons the easy thing to do was to do nothing. To go through the motions, see out his lucrative Warriors contract and then take up one of several appealing options for the following season – including an invitation to become the long ...-- https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league/109163495/why-former-warrior-shaun-johnson-knocked-back-the-roosters

Is Karel Sroubek a sign of things to come if the government signs the UN's Global Compact on Migration? The government's reluctance to renounce the migration compact, along with its reticence to remove Karel Sroubek from New Zealand, gives a very clear ...-- http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/5/327890

New Zealand batting coach Craig McMillan hailed Kane Williamson's test-turning ton against Pakistan as "very special" as the Black Caps moved into a commanding position ahead of the final day of the series decider in Abu Dhabi. McMillan said Williamson ...-- https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/109166439/kane-williamsons-ton-very-special-as-black-caps-take-control-against-pakistan

Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters today formally gifted Tokelau with a new vessel to serve as a small passenger ferry between the country's three atolls. "The new inter-atoll vessel will serve as the country's first purpose-built emergency ...-- http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/5/327901

HOUSTON (AP) — Thousands waved and cheered along the route as funeral train 4141 — for the 41st president — carried George H.W. Bush's remains toward their final resting place in Texas on Thursday, his last journey as a week of national remembrance ...-- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id%3D2%26objectid%3D12172618

Unions will meet with Air New Zealand on Monday to try resolve a pay dispute and avert a strike planned for the busiest day of the year. Air New Zealand aircraft maintenance engineers, aircraft logistics and related staff are planning to strike four ...-- https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/109165520/strike-planned-for-air-nzs-busiest-day-before-christmas

Whether or not police are allowed to march in uniform, there's a sense that the Auckland Pride Parade has become too corporate, Pride Board Chair Cissy Rock told TVNZ1's Breakfast today just hours after a contentious bid to oust the board failed. Many ...-- https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/after-surviving-coup-auckland-pride-board-chair-remains-defiant-police-uniform-ban-corporate-backlash

Concerns around a pod of dolphins in Northland have eased after four were stranded and refloated, all then heading out to sea. The pod of around 40 common dolphins had authorities worried at Tokerau Beach, on the Karikari Peninsula, after they were ...-- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id%3D1%26objectid%3D12172855

The father of missing British backpacker Grace Millane has arrived in New Zealand and met with police. More than 25 police staff were working on the investigation after the 22-year-old from Essex disappeared in Auckland after Saturday night. Detective ...-- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id%3D1%26objectid%3D12172850

JAMES ELSBY/AP. How do you remove India's sturdy captain Virat Kohli? By bowling loose half-volleys, apparently. Can Australia hold the fort against India? RYAN PIERSE/GETTY IMAGES. Australia's Josh Hazlewood was aggressive with the ball, grabbing ...-- http://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-newspapers/central-north-island/sport/sport-region-6459/109170405/Glut-of-white-ball-cricket-softens-India-for-the-kill-in-Australia-test-series

How other countries adopted health-based approaches to drug use was one issue considered by the Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction report released this week. One of those was Portugal, which in 2001, decriminalised the purchase, possession and ...and more »-- https://sunlive.co.nz/news/194931-weighing-up-approaches-to-drug-decriminalisation.html

China has demanded that Canada release an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei who was arrested in a case that compounds tensions with the US and threatens to complicate trade talks. Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, ...-- https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/109169179/timing-of-huawei-cfo-arrest-is-awkward-china-demands-her-release

ALL-NEW 2019 TRIUMPH BONNEVILLE SPEED TWIN. The New Performance Icon. The beautiful new 1,200cc Triumph Bonneville Speed Twin proudly re-introduces a legendary British moniker to the world in a machine truly worthy of the iconic 'Speed Twin' ...-- http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/triumph-introduces-all-new-bonneville-speed-twin/

Angolan club Primeiro Agosto, who reached the CAF Champions League semifinals last season, were shock casualties in the 2018/2019 preliminary round this week. The Luanda club managed by Bosnian Dragan Jovic lost 2-0 away to AS Otoho of Congo ...-- https://www.supersport.com/football/caf-champions-league/news/181206_CAF_CL_high_riders_Primeiro_crash_in_Congo

Cannabis Sativa Inc (OTCMKTS:CBDS) insider David Tobias sold 16,050 shares of Cannabis Sativa stock in a transaction on Tuesday, November 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $4.84, for a total value of $77,682.00. The transaction was ...-- https://pressoracle.com/news/2018/12/06/david-tobias-sells-16050-shares-of-cannabis-sativa-inc-cbds-stock.html

Early on Wednesday, the United Kingdom Parliament released a 250-page trove of documents from a US lawsuit against Facebook. The trove has a colorful history, having been obtained in a hotel-room raid on a visiting businessman that may or may not ...-- https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18128267/facebook-morale-uk-parliament-emails-privacy-competition

Boys as young as 12 are being brought over from the Pacific Islands to boost the rugby performance of intermediate schools' teams. Te Puke Intermediate has been borrowing players for each season from Fiji. Its Rugby Academy Director Darren Harvey ...-- https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018674467/fijian-youth-brought-to-nz-to-boost-school-rugby-team

The green light has been given for construction of an America's Cup village, with Auckland councillors on Thursday approving the council's share of a $29 million cost increase. Some councillors opposed or were unhappy with the extra $14.5 million ...-- https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/109123343/Green-light-for-Americas-Cup-Village-in-Auckland-with-council-OKing-14-5m-cost-increase

Theresa May has told BBC Radio 4's Today programme her EU deal delivers on the result of the 2016 referendum. She said she was "talking to colleagues" about their concerns over the Northern Irish backstop. But she said no deal with the EU was possible ...-- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46463326

Fonterra has cut its farmgate milk price forecast for 2018/19 to $6.00 to 6.30 kg of milk solids from a previous range of $6.25 to $6.50/kg, and has confirmed that its Tip Top ice cream business is up for sale. The co-op, which is part-way through a ...-- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id%3D3%26objectid%3D12171920

The second year in a row of growing carbon emissions is a "big worry", New Zealand's leading carbon cycle expert says. An article published on Thursday in Environmental Research Letters said carbon dioxide emissions from human activities were expected ...-- https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/109141908/rising-co2-emissions-a-big-worry-says-leading-scientist

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Cheteshwar Pujara defied Australia's bowling attack and overcame stifling conditions at the Adelaide Oval with a century on the opening day of the first test on Thursday. India was in danger of being bowled out cheaply after ...-- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id%3D4%26objectid%3D12172409

MARKET CLOSE: NZ shares fall as Huawei CFO arrest reignites trade fears; A2 drops. By Paul McBeth. Dec. 6 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand shares fell, joining a sell-off across Asia, as the arrest of a Huawei executive reignited fears about US-China trade ...-- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1812/S00169/market-close-nz-shares-fall-on-huawei-cfo-arrest.htm

The Ministers of Agriculture and Climate Change welcome the report of the Biological Emissions Reference Group (BERG), which has been released today. "In essence, BERG has looked at what lowering emissions means for the primary sector," said Damien ...and more »-- http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/5/327843

Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei's Chief Financial Officer Sabrina Meng Wanzhou has been detained by Canadian authorities at the request of the US government, a move that sparked a protest from the Chinese government. But who is Sabrina ...-- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id%3D3%26objectid%3D12172645

By Kris Taylor*. Opinion - The Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) have just released, what is to my mind, a nationally significant document in the findings of the NZ Youth and Porn survey. Late night internet addiction or working late ...-- https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/377682/number-of-teens-who-watch-porn-relatively-low

Each weekday The Front Page keeps you up to date with the biggest news in New Zealand. Today it's a warning climate change threatens our security, a New Zealander who's been told coming home could kill her, bad news for farmers, and the truth about ...-- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id%3D1%26objectid%3D12172489

A patched Head Hunter's gang member is one of four people who has been arrested during major crime operation in Rotorua and Auckland. The 40-year-old man and three others face multiple charges relating to the sale and supply of methamphetamine, ...and more »-- https://sunlive.co.nz/news/194913-head-hunter-arrested-major-crime-operation.html

For the past two months, CTV has delved into the post-quake mental health crisis facing Canterbury. This final video looks at the question, why can't Canterbury get the help it needs? The conditions hospital staff work in have been called 'crap ...and more »-- https://www.star.kiwi/2018/12/indepth-why-cant-canterbury-get-the-help-it-needs/

From the moment he crossed the transept of the soaring Washington National Cathedral, tore off his overcoat and took his seat in the front pew, President Donald Trump was an outsider. When the others sang an opening hymn, his mouth did not move.-- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id%3D2%26objectid%3D12172461

About 2000 Destiny Church supporters have rallied at Parliament demanding access to prisons for their rehabilitation programmes, and millions of dollars in funding. Thousands gather outisde Parliament for a Destiny Church rally. Photo: RNZ / Rebekah ...-- https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/377653/destiny-church-rallies-at-parliament-for-access-to-prisons

Nehe Milner-Skudder has waded in on the Māori Santa debate, calling the issue "pretty ridiculous". The All Blacks star wrote a thoughtful "little rant" on his Facebook page, outlining his view on the underlying racial politics behind the saga. The ...-- http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/nehe-milner-skudder-wades-into-ridiculous-maori-santa-debate/

Dozens of stink bugs have managed to get into the country in a pair of shoes bought on an American website. Up to 26 live brown marmorated stink bugs, also known as BMSB, were recently discovered in a box of imported shoes in Oamaru. The information ...and more »-- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id%3D1%26objectid%3D12172592

The Auckland Pride board has survived a "no confidence" vote over the ban on police marching in uniform in the annual Pride Parade. A special general meeting was called in central Auckland on Thursday evening after four members expressed a lack of ...-- https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/109128916/Pride-board-no-confidence-vote-defeated-after-controversial-police-uniform-ban

Police say there have been various sightings of missing British backpacker Grace Millane, 22, as they piece together her last known movements. Grace was last seen at around 7pm on Saturday on Victoria Street in the Auckland CBD. Detective Inspector ...-- https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/wheres-missing-british-backpacker-grace-police-tracking-her-last-movements-amid-multiple-reports-sightings

A man wants customers to complain to Pak'nSave Kilbirnie after learning they shoot sparrows in their store. A pair of sparrows on grass (file photo). Photo: 123RF. Brendan Robinson was told by staff that birdseed and birdcalls were used to draw them ...-- https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/377677/birds-suffer-horrible-pain-as-supermarket-contractor-shoots-them

If a large number of farmers adopted currently available options to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, they could achieve up to a 10 percent reduction in biological emissions from pasture-based livestock. That's according to a new report from the ...-- http://www.sharechat.co.nz/article/3e266736/two-thirds-of-farmers-want-to-reduce-emissions-but-don-t-know-how-report.html

In a first for New Zealand, 21 general practitioners from five iwi health providers in the Wellington region will go on strike for an hour tomorrow. A doctor gives a male patient an update on his case (file photo). Photo: 123RF. Lloyd Woods, an ...and more »-- https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/377672/doctors-at-iwi-health-providers-to-strike

Research shows rapid deployment of solar and wind power, along with gains in energy efficiency, have been outpaced by growth in demand for freight, personal transport, shipping, and aviation ...and more »-- https://www.rappler.com/science-nature/environment/218308-world-off-course-curb-global-warming-study-december-2018

Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei's Chief Financial Officer Sabrina Meng Wanzhou has been detained by Canadian authorities at the request of the US government, a move that sparked a protest from the Chinese government. But who is Sabrina ...-- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id%3D3%26objectid%3D12172645

St Kentigern College may be running out of opponents next year, with the central North Island's Super Eight schools joining in the boycott of the Auckland private school. The Herald revealed yesterday that 10 schools in the 1A competition where St ...-- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id%3D4%26objectid%3D12172613