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Marokopa man Tom Phillips has been fatally shot by police after firing at an officer in Waikato this morning, and all three of his children are now in police custody.In a media conference at the Hamilton Central Police Station, Deputy Police Commissioner Jill Rogers said police responded to a report of a burglary at a rural farm supply store in Piopio at 2.30am on Monday.”Information came to police that describes two people on a quad bike, dressed in farm clothing and wearing headlamps,” Rogers said.The quad bike was then seen travelling north along the Waipuna Rd, with police spiking the…

ADVERTISEMENT A debate has erupted online after Spain’s transport minister Óscar Puente claimed that his country has the second-most punctual mid and long-distance trains in Europe. “Our punctuality ratio, the punctuality ratio of Renfe [Spain’s national state-owned railway company], is the second-highest in Europe, after the Swiss company and far ahead of Germany, Italy or France, which have punctuality rates inferior to ours,” he said on 4 September. It’s true that non-EU member Switzerland consistently ranks as having some of the most reliable trains on the continent, according to various reports and travel companies that rank services based on their…

ANZ bank has admitted to making false representations to customers in two separate cases, resulting in more than $4 million in overcharges.The Financial Markets Authority says New Zealand’s biggest bank has admitted to breaching fair dealing laws and agreed to pay a fee totalling $3.25m to the Government, instead of a pecuniary penalty under the Financial Markets Conduct Act.”ANZ self-reported two fair dealing breaches to us,” FMA head of enforcement Margot Gatland said.An ANZ spokesperson said the bank accepted the FMA’s findings.”We remain committed to doing the right thing by our customers and continuously improving how we operate.”The first breach…

ADVERTISEMENT Germany is no longer the country where the most people apply for asylum in the European Union, fresh data released by the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) on Monday shows. By the end of June 2025, France (78,000) and Spain (77,000) both received more applications than Germany (70,000), which has been the main destination for asylum seekers in recent years. By the end of June 2025, EU countries plus Norway and Switzerland received 399,000 asylum applications, a 23% decrease compared to the first half of 2024.  There was a significant dip in applications lodged by Syrian citizens, with…

A pedestrian has been critically injured after being struck by a train on a rail bridge in Timaru this afternoon. Police were notified of the incident near Saltwater Creek in Redruth around 3.30pm today.”A person has been struck by a locomotive on a rail bridge in Timaru,” KiwiRail chief operations officer Paul Ashton confirmed to 1News.Hato Hone St John told 1News it responded with an ambulance, helicopter, operations manager, and a rapid response vehicle. Emergency services remain on site.One person has been airlifted to Christchurch Hospital in a critical condition.

ADVERTISEMENT Europe’s car industry is “in mortal danger”, EU industry chief Stéphane Séjourné said a few months back, not mincing his words. Stuttering sales, high energy prices, growing global competition and an uncertain regulatory and trade environment have plunged the sector into a spiralling crisis. “There is a risk that the future map of the global car industry will be drawn without Europe,” Séjourné said back in April. To tackle the sector’s most pressing challenges, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will host the top car executives in Brussels on Friday. It’s the third and last crisis meeting of its kind…

The Irish showed admirable respect when they refused to turn away from the New Zealanders following the haka. The Black Ferns held their ground, and then unleashed 80 minutes of Mana Wahine, writes 1News sports presenter Scotty Stevenson.This was more like it. Dialled in and desperate to find the kind of fluency they are famed for playing with, the Black Ferns demolished the Irish 40-nil at Brighton and Hove and set their world cup campaign on the fast track to the final.This was billed as a genuine showdown, with Ireland on the rise as a force in international women’s rugby…

ADVERTISEMENT US President Donald Trump has claimed that Poland was one of just two countries previously meeting NATO’s defence spending target of 2% of gross domestic product (GDP), which was recently raised to 5% of GDP by 2035 on Trump’s demand. “Poland was one of two nations that paid more than they were supposed to with NATO,” the US President said. “I don’t know if anyone knows that, but there were two nations, and Poland paid more than they were supposed to,” he added. The comments came during a meeting with Polish President Karol Nawrocki, who secured a narrow victory…

New Zealand’s engineered post-Covid recession has pushed our wage growth to near the bottom of the world in recent years.Comparing real gross domestic product per capita, converted for purchasing power parity, New Zealand ranks 25th out of 43 for growth over the past decade and 37th for the past two years.The only places that rank below New Zealand in the most recent two years are Germany, Canada, Luxembourg, Austria, Ireland and Estonia.Israel was top for the decade and Turkey for two years.Infometrics chief forecaster Gareth Kiernan said it was another example of the country having to pay the price for…

Northland College is making moves to become a charter school and is the first state school to publicly reveal it is doing so.The Kaikohe school says it desperately needs to do something to lift achievement for its predominantly Māori students and has the backing of Northland iwi, Ngāpuhi.In June, Auckland school Al-Madinah became the first and so far only state-integrated school to admit it had applied for conversion.Unlike regular state schools, integrated schools already meet one of the charter school requirements of having a third-party owner or sponsor.Northland College principal Duane Allen said he was formerly a strong opponent of…