An elderly Mangawhai woman fought off a knife-wielding intruder who tried to sexually assault her.
Augie Auer has died. The veteran meteorologist and former TV3 weather presenter suffered a heart attack in Melbourne while dining with family members last night.
Software has been wiped from thousands of school computers because of a row over Government funding. Microsoft Office programs have been ordered to be removed from about 25,000 Apple Macintosh computers in schools.
HIGH-TECH PEEPERS: The development of miniature video and still cameras has fueled the worrying growth of invasive film and photos shot on the subway system.
Christchurch, New Zealand - Broken glass, beer bottles, and empty alcohol cartons today marked the scene of a party in Christchurch where two teenagers were killed and eight others injured last night.
The Auckland City Council - frustrated at the lack of action by the private sector - is planning a 100km fibre network to provide faster and cheaper broadband across the city.
"Welcome to LA, where the world comes together," reads the greeting from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at Los Angeles International Airport.
More than a million New Zealand households are now online, according to latest official figures.
A Taipei restaurant-bar is letting visitors order "medicine" from a menu and dripping it into their glasses from a transparent ceiling-suspended vat, becoming the latest oddball themed restaurant in Taiwan's capital.
Free internet access will be available throughout all 17 Auckland City Libraries from Thursday 26 April.
A man discharged from Rotorua Hospital made his 10-year-old daughter drive him home because he was in too much pain and couldn't afford a taxi.
The "one million people to oust Chen" campaign got off with a bang, winning close to NT$10 million in cash donations from some 70,000 supporters as of yesterday, when organizers of the campaign publicized the records for the first time.
A man with no arms was caught speeding at 121km/h yesterday - using one foot to steer and the other to operate the pedals.
Adobe have just released, on their blog, an explanation on why they are unable/unwilling to release an update/patch of CS2 for the new Intel Macs.
Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft's new Vista operating system is set to be rewritten as the company "scrambles" to fix internal problems a Microsoft insider has confirmed to SHN.
Adobe today said it would not deliver native Intel versions of currently shipping professional products and that customers would have to wait until future major releases--which could be more than one year away--for native Intel Mac support.
According to statistics gathered by Nielsen NetRatings between Dec '04 to Dec '05, 14% of the net's active population are regularly using the iTunes service.
Just days after the release of Intel's new Core processors, at least 34 errata have been found in the Intel Core Duo processors. Intel says it has scheduled a fix for only one of the 34 erratas in the new Core Duo chips...
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