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Music reviewer John Hayden lists his best albums of the decade. 

George MacKay (left) and Dean-Charles Chapman in 1917. Photos: Supplied Director Sam Mendes tells how getting every detail right was crucial to helping his cast understand emotions of war in 1917, writes Vanessa Thorpe. 

Anna Yeoman's experiences helping in an endangered skink project in Central Otago led to reflections on the exciting but vulnerable status of current lizard work in New Zealand. 

Author Thalassa Skinner. Photo: Erin Kunkel Cheese boards are an important part of any party or gathering but it’s often hard to know what to match the cheeses with.

Photo: Getty Images Migrant workers from the Pacific are now able to get measles vaccines in New Zealand.

Toby Stoff enjoyed some Welsh hospitality but his visit confirmed his belief that Baldwin St is steeper than the main street of Ffordd Pen Llech. Photo: Supplied A Welsh town is gaining a much needed tourism boost from having the world's steepest street - but surveyor Toby Stoff is adamant the title should be returned to Dunedin's Baldwin St.

Most Kiwis do their biggest grocery shops in the weeks before Christmas. Photo: Peter McIntosh If you hear this each Christmas Eve - "Quick, head down to the supermarket and buy some extra berries and cream!" - you're not alone.

A Coroner is calling for trucks with semi-trailers to be fitted with a protection device after a Mosgiel man died in a crash two years ago.

getty_raval.jpg Jeet Raval walks off the field in Perth after another failure at the top of the order. Photo: Getty Images The Black Caps have handed Tom Blundell the opportunity of his cricketing career.

Jeet Raval walks off the field in Perth after another failure at the top of the order. Photo: Getty Images The Black Caps have handed Tom Blundell the opportunity of his cricketing career.

Emergency services are at the scene of a crash between a motorbike and pedestrian in Dunedin.

The van smashed through Irsaan Khan's fence in New Windsor and almost hit his house. Photo: supplied A van has smashed through a fence at an Auckland property - the third time this has happened in a year - leaving the owner frustrated and scared for his family's safety.

Photographer's delight: Mill Farm's irrigation lake Millbrook Resort has heeded the old adage, ‘Go West, young man’, for its latest development. Philip Chandler takes stock of the golf resort’s Mill Farm extension, about 30 years after it originally broke ground.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has  named tourism minister Manuel Marrero Cruz as the country’s first prime minister in decades, under a new constitution that seeks to decentralise former leader Fidel Castro’s job.

The search is focusing on waters near Whakaari / White Island. Photo: NZDF Searches are under way again between Whakaari / White Island and the mainland for the remaining two people from the deadly eruption nearly two weeks ago.

Flames engulf a row of trees at the side of a road at Gospers Mountain in New South Wales on Saturday. Image: NSW Rural Fire Service via Reuters Bushfires continue to rage in Australian states, with one person dead and another is missing.

Photo: RNZ People in Christchurch are being asked to avoid swimming at Waimairi Beach, after a boat grounded and capsized offshore late on Saturday night.

A child has died after being struck by a vehicle in a Mataura driveway in Southland.

Photo: RNZ People in Christchurch are being asked to avoid swimming at Waimairi Beach, after a boat grounded and capsized offshore late on Saturday night.

Police Minister Stuart Nash (third left) and Deputy Police Commissioner Mike Clement (right) at a media briefing held at the end of the gun buy-back scheme. Photo: RNZ Police Minister Stuart Nash is warning anyone who has failed to hand in their illegal firearms in the Government's gun buy-back scheme that they are now breaking the law and could lose their licence or even end up in jail.