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A Christchurch family are devastated their 20-year-old cat was handed to the SPCA and killed before they had a chance to save it.
The Clarke family of Halswell had Krumpet for 20 years.
Last Tuesday, father Gwyn Clarke was shocked to come home from work and find a note in his letterbox saying their female ginger cat [...]

It was an ordinary school day in 1987 when I was called out of class by a teacher who told me I should consider applying for Oxford or Cambridge. I was gobsmacked. She might as well have suggested I spend the next three years on the moon.The school, a comprehensive in a deprived part of [...]

Amelia Earhart fell out of the sky and into the history books on the morning of July 2, 1937. She had been expected to land on tiny Howland Island in the South Pacific as one of the last legs of her record-setting around-the-world flight.
But although [...]

Ages ago, when consumers were still known as people, the Super Bowl was a sports event.
Then Master Lock shot a bullet at a lock on a commercial during the 1974 game, and things changed. The Master Lock ad, putting a brand logo front and center in a blunt, right-between-the-eyes campaign, ran more or less [...]

Getting Connected, to You! A while ago, engaged in our LIFEChange monthly theme of “Get Connected,” I very smartly chose to cover topics such as connecting with your spouse, your children and even your neighbor. However, a more balanced participant sent in a suggestion that we should first [...]

People in the know - and yes, there are hundreds of avid geocachers all over the place - will tell you that geocaching is akin to a sophisticated treasure hunt where you use a hand-held satellite navigation system to lead you to the treasure. This treasure can take many forms - there are multi-caches and [...]

Those who served with Colonel Litvinenko also recall that he was naive - a flaw in his line of work. For him, there was only right and wrong. “He was like a salmon swimming upstream,” one former FSB general told us, citing how Litvinenko, against his advice, investigated links between crime clans and what Russians [...]

Priam, a grandfather, was cut down in front of his daughters. His terrified grandson, Astyanax, son of Hector, was flung from the city walls. Andromache, noble Hector’s wife, was spat upon by all who passed her as she sat quietly amid the booty of Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, not yet out of his teens. Grandmother [...]

When Paris arrived back in Troy, Priam, his father, berated him, as did Hector, his brother. But Hecuba, his mother, berated him most of all, for she recalled that when she was pregnant with Paris she dreamed that she gave birth to a firebrand that burned down the whole city around her. Paris did not [...]

“The health system is in disarray owing to the lack of an institutional framework, intermittent electricity, unsafe water, and frequent violations of medical neutrality. The ministry of health and local health authorities are mostly unable to meet these huge challenges, while the activities of UN agencies and non-governmental organisations are severely limited.”The report, by the [...]