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About 100 paddle-boarders and surfboard riders have poured into the Sydney surf to honour the six victims of the Bondi stabbing attack.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says airfield is on standby, slots are booked for flights and 500 staff are ready to escort migrants "all the way to Rwanda". Photo: Reuters British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised to start sending asylum seekers to Rwanda within 10 to 12 weeks as the upper house of parliament finally passed required legislation, delayed for weeks by attempts to alter the plan.

Former US president Donald Trump sits in court on the first day of opening statements in his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court for falsifying documents related to hush money payments, in New York. Photo: Pool via Reuters New York prosecutors said on the first day of Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial that the former president broke the law and corrupted the 2016 election by trying to cover up sexual encounters with a porn star and a Playboy model, while his defense lawyer said he committed no crime.

A demonstrator is detained by police officers outside Columbia University's New York City campus. Photo: Reuters Police arrested dozens of people at pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Yale University in Connecticut and New York University in Manhattan on Monday, as the war in Gaza continued to reverberate through US university campuses.

An aerial view of Hokitika looking north along the current seawall towards the northern residential area which is increasingly vulnerable to coastal inundation - and where penguin breed. Photo: West Coast Regional Council. A local penguin trust had to intervene during emergency repairs to a temporary rock buffer, north of the Hokitika seawall, where kororā are known to nest.

File photo: Getty images A promoter of a sophisticated pyramid scheme, self-described as one of the biggest scammers in New Zealand, has been convicted in North Shore District Court on five charges under the Fair Trading Act.

About 100 paddle-boarders and surfboard riders have poured into the Sydney surf to honour the six victims of the Bondi stabbing attack.

File photo A Belgian man was acquitted of a drink-driving charge because he suffers from auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), a rare condition whereby the body produces alcohol, his lawyer says.

At present only new highways can be tolled to help pay for them, and only when there is a free alternative route. Photo: NZTA By Phil Pennington  Transport Minister Simeon Brown is being encouraged to look at tolling existing roads to relieve pressure on strained transport funding.

Te Papa has replaced the Treaty of Waitangi panel damaged in December 2023 with a temporary display. Photo: Supplied / Te Papa Te Papa has replaced the Treaty of Waitangi panel damaged in a protest last year.

Stock photo: Getty Almost 500,000 illegal vapes have been seized in the largest single operation of its kind in Australian history.

Peter Robb is shown in this 2016 file photo. Photo: ODT Files The "reclusive" Dunedin man whose body was found last week was Peter Alexandra Robb, who made international headlines when an internet romance went wrong.

Peter Robb is shown in this 2016 file photo. Photo: ODT Files The "reclusive" Dunedin man whose body was found last week was Peter Alexandra Robb, who made international headlines when an internet romance went wrong.

Fire crews battled into the early hours of this morning to bring a Cromwell laundromat blaze under control.

RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. Photo: RNZ Farming, mining and other industrial regulations are being scrapped or amended under the government's first changes to the Resource Management Act.

US forces in Iraq and Syria faced two separate rocket and explosive drone attacks in less than 24 hours, Iraqi security sources and US officials told Reuters, in the first such incidents reported after a near three-month pause.

Dunedin ANZAC Dawn Service 2024 Live stream from Queens Garden. Stream starts 6am Thursday 26th April. Service at 630am.  

A teenage boy was caught allegedly shoplifting a collection of beauty products from a Dunedin chemist.