| October 23, 2007 | - A New Zealand woman died while nursing her baby son; the child was smothered by her corpse.
| Source:
NZHerald
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| August 1, 2007 | - A New Zealand study found that vegans are disgusted by sex with carnivores because meat-eaters are “composed of the lives of others.”
| Source:
ABC News
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| June 21, 2007 | - Authorities in New Zealand prevented a couple from naming their baby “4real” because the name included a numeral.
- Authorities in New Zealand prevented a couple from naming their baby “4real” because the name included a numeral.
| Source:
AP via CNN
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| March 9, 2006 | - A New Zealand miner drowned in a flooded shaft.
| Source:
Stuff.co.nz
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| February 2, 2006 | - In New Zealand the organizers of a vintage-car exposition hired 40 karate experts to defend the cars from parrots.
| Source:
CNews
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| January 1, 2006 | - Authorities in New Zealand shot and killed 41 stranded pilot whales.
| Source:
Toronto Star
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| November 12, 2005 | - A New Zealand school apologized to an Iraqi student who was named “most likely to join the army as a bomb” in the school yearbook. “If I lived somewhere like America,” said 18-year-old Rami Al-Rdini, “I would expect a comment like that. I always thought New Zealand was quite a nice country.”
| Source:
New Zealand Herald
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| November 8, 2005 | - The Dutch Ministry of Culture agreed to return a mummified Maori head to New Zealand.
| Source:
AP
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| October 22, 2005 | -
Scientists released a brown Norway rat on a deserted, rat-free island off of New Zealand in order to find out why rats are so hard to kill. Even though they fitted the rat with a radio collar, used traps and bait, and pursued the rat with sniffer dogs, the rat was not caught for four months. It was finally captured on a nearby island using a trap baited with penguin meat.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| October 14, 2005 | - More details emerged in the case of the New Zealand financier arrested in Australia for bestiality with rabbits. Police said that when they arrested the man he had scratches on his hands and face; the man's lawyer said he molested the rabbits under the influence of methamphetamine. The head of the Australian Companion Rabbit Society pointed out that prostitutes were once called “bunnies.”
| Source:
The Advertiser
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| June 30, 2005 | - In New Zealand a baby boy undergoing penis-enlargement treatment was accidentally given ten times the recommended dose of testosterone by his nurse, causing the boy to become angry and irritable and to develop pubic hair. A doctor warned that the baby might also suffer from painful erections, but that problem had yet to arise.
| Source:
Stuff.co.nz
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| June 23, 2005 | - Gnawing rats shut down telephone, mobile, Internet, and electronic-banking services for 100,000 New Zealanders.
| Source:
AP
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| March 12, 2005 | - A study showed that thousands might die of the avian flu in New Zealand.
| Source:
Canada.com
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| March 7, 2005 | -
Prince Charles visited New Zealand, where he was met by a woman with the words “GET YOUR COLONIAL SHAME OFF MY BREASTS” written across her bare chest. The Prince smiled.
| Source:
Seattle PI
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| October 17, 2003 | -
New Zealand abandoned its proposal to tax flatulent livestock.
| Source:
Ananova
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| June 21, 2003 | -
New Zealand proposed a tax on flatulent livestock.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 2, 2001 | -
Police in New Zealand
arrested a naked man pushing a baby carriage that contained a stolen shrub in a terra-cotta pot.
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| August 21, 2001 | - In New Zealand, a man with one ear slipped on some ice and drowned in his cat's water bowl.
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| July 31, 2001 | -
New Zealand officials dropped 120 tons of rat poison on Campbell Island.
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| May 29, 2001 | - Surgeons removed a beer-can ring-pull from the lung of a New Zealand man.
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| January 9, 2001 | -
Australia and New Zealand banned all European Union beef products.
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| November 14, 2000 | -
New Zealand
researchers claimed to have found a gene for schizophrenia.
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