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Tue 18 Jun 2013

Jewel heist ends in farce amid bungled attempts to sell gems

A SPECTACULAR spectacular jewel heist in which armed robbers coolly snatched £30 million in diamonds from a plane at Brussels airport ended in near farce.

Offbeat
Tony Paterson

Mum accused of stabbing partner, cutting baby

A MOTHER cut her baby after she stabbed her partner in the back while he was holding the child in a domestic incident in Christchurch last night, police say.

Crime

Saatchi says Nigella hand-on-throat images a 'playful tiff'

CHARLES Saatchi denies photos of him repeatedly placing his hands around his wife Nigella Lawson's neck were evidence of anything more than a "playful tiff".

Celebrity

Mon 17 Jun 2013

Woman tells of 15th floor plunge drama

A WOMAN has described the nightmare of trying to grab a man who fell from the 15th floor of an Auckland city apartment block - and survived.

News
Andrew Koubaridis and Yvonne Tahana

Sun 16 Jun 2013

Iran will send 4,000 troops to aid Bashar al-Assad

US urges Britain and France to join in supplying arms to Syrian rebels as MPs fear that UK will be drawn into growing Sunni-Shia conflict

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Robert Fisk

Wed 12 Jun 2013

Catholic Church should not seek riches, says Pope

POPE Francis said today that the Catholic Church, which rakes in hundreds of millions of euros each year, should not seek to accumulate wealth.

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News
Michael Day of The Independent

Dozing bank employee transfers €222,222,222.22 in his sleep

A BANK employee nodded off while making what was supposed to be a minor money transfer and inadvertently drained €222m from an account – without realising.

Offbeat
Tony Paterson

Tue 11 Jun 2013

'Plasticarian' tries to live a plastic-free life

WHEN Thomas Smith, was given a plastic lid for his takeaway tea by the staff at his university café, he said, "I can't take that, I'm a plasticarian."

Lifestyle
Sarah Morrison

Erin Brockovich arrested for being 'drunk in charge of boat'

ENVIRONMENTAL activist Erin Brockovich has been arrested in Las Vegas for being drunk in charge of a boat.

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News
John Hall

Mon 10 Jun 2013

Backlash for turning 'whistleblower' on US operation

THE man behind the largest leak of classified information in the history of the US National Security Agency (NSA) has chosen to make his identity public.

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News
Tim Walker

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