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A tramper’s day walk on Northland’s Mt Tutamoe turned into a late night ordeal after he became lost in dense bush.The event has prompted police to issue a reminder about proper preparation for activities in challenging environments.Northland police search and rescue lead Detective Sergeant Paul Overton said the tramper had almost reached the summit of the mountain when he abandoned the track due to tough terrain.Overton said the tramper had ended up lost after he unintentionally wandered off the track.Although he had patchy reception on his cell phone, he was able to get through to the police emergency call centre.Police…
The EU has learnt from its mistakes with the UK and Georgia and is now prepared to be “more assertive” including by investing in candidate countries to counter fake narratives, European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos said. In a group interview on Tuesday in which Euronews took part, Marta Kos said 2025 marked a departure for the way the European Commission approached enlargement, notably because “it was the first time that we invested resources, we have invested men and women power to help fend off foreign malign interference”. “This included for the first time the deployment of the EU’s rapid…
People born into the Gloriavale community are trapped into a working structure resembling “a sweatshop”, lawyers for former members say.But counsel for the Christian community told the Court of Appeal this week that members did not expect to be paid, and were supported by the collective.The former leader of the community, overseeing shepherd Howard Temple, is appealing an Employment Court decision which found members were employees, rather than community volunteers, working in factories, farms or Gloriavale’s domestic teams.Temple, 85, resigned as overseeing shepherd in August after being convicted of sexual offending against girls and women at the West Coast Christian…
By Euronews Published on 29/10/2025 – 12:40 GMT+1 •Updated 13:29 Slovenia’s interior and justice ministers resigned following the fatal beating of a man by a 21-year-old suspect of Roma background outside a nightclub in Novo Mesto, as Prime Minister Robert Golob warned against inciting ethnic hatred while promising “serious” measures in response. Interior Minister Boštjan Poklukar and Justice Minister Andreja Katič submitted resignations that Golob accepted, with both citing “objective responsibility” for deteriorating security in southeastern Slovenia, where violence involving the Roma minority has recently escalated. Aleš Šutar, 48, died after sustaining severe head injuries when he rushed to rescue his…
Opinion: The Ministry of Education’s new maths curriculum will result in poorer results, and risk damaging children’s self-confidence, disappointing parents, and placing the blame on teachers, write David Pomeroy and Lisa Darragh.If the recent news of a new mathematics and statistics curriculum for years 0–10 felt familiar, that’s because it was.In term four last year, the Ministry of Education released a previous new maths (and English) curriculum for Years 0–8, to be implemented from term one this year.Schools must use the latest new curriculum from term one next year. This will be the third curriculum for primary and intermediate schools…
A Christchurch woman who felt life was no longer worth living has become the first person to take clinically prescribed psilocybin to help treat her depression. Gill Higgins reports.For decades, Alice Brent has lived under the heavy weight of depression – a relentless illness that no medication, therapy, or effort could shift.’Everything ceased to exist’: Watch this story on TVNZ+“I think I was first diagnosed when I was about 18,” she says. “It’s never gone away. It starts with feeling kind of devoid of any emotion… and it can get to a point where it’s just despair.”Alice Brent (Source: 1News)There…
TSB has undercut all the other major banks by dropping its one-year fixed mortgage rate today. The bank announced this morning it would reduce the one-year fixed rate to 4.39% per annum.TSB’s new rate was down 10 basis points, from the previous rate of 4.49%, and would be available for those with at least 20% deposit. The other major banks are offering 4.49% for one-year. Earlier this month, all the major banks lowered their floating rates after the Reserve Bank slashed the official cash rate (OCR) by 50 basis points.They all then moved on fixed term rates. The morning’s headlines…
More than six in 10 young EU citizens say they use social media platforms to follow daily content on social and political current affairs, according to new figures from Eurobarometer. The study follows a declaration signed earlier this month by each EU country, except Estonia and Belgium, calling for stronger protections for children online and backing a minimum age for children to access social media. EU ministers said they will explore whether further measures are needed to complement existing EU rules, since they state minors are increasingly at risk of being exposed to illegal, harmful, and extremist content, and “require…
A significant milestone has been reached in the Mt Messenger Bypass Te Ara o Te Ata project on State Highway 3 in Taranaki.A 110 tonne excavating machine, called Hinetūparimaunga, has broken through at the northern end of the project’s 235 metre-long tunnel.Hinetūparimaunga — named after the atua for mountains and cliffs — emerged to karakia from project partners Ngāti Tama and the applause of staff and assembled dignitaries braving the rain for a glimpse of history in the making.Ngāti Tama general manager, Te Amoroa Clifton, evoked the legacy of Dame Whina Cooper when expressing the day’s significance to iwi members.”Today…
From help with mundane admin tasks to seeking out relationship advice, internet users are increasingly turning to AI chatbots for life tips. But can you really use AI for voting advice, and can it be trusted with democracy? The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) has said no, warning that AI tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini can be unreliable and prone to bias, ahead of the country’s snap elections scheduled for 29 October. The AP recently published a study in which it fed four chatbots — ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Le Chat — 200 typical voting profiles per political party…