A powerful earthquake struck New Zealand’s North Island on Tuesday but there are no immediate reports of casualties or damage and no tsunami warning was issued.

A rising New Zealand teen swimming star has divorced himself from his parents so he can continue a relationship with an American gold medallist seven years his senior, according to a report.

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Otago Highlanders captain Jamie Mackintosh told on Tuesday how he saved the life of a choking woman by squeezing her ‘like a great big grizzly bear’, breaking one of her ribs in the process.

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Former New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori, the world’s top-ranked limited overs bowler, announced today he is taking an indefinite break from the short game to prolong his Test career.

New Zealand offered to buy 5,000 damaged homes in quake-devastated Christchurch on Thursday and said it was assessing whether to purchase another 10,000.

Prime Minister John Key said the offer relate

Wicketkeeper-batsman Brendon McCullum has pledged support to New Zealand captain Ross Taylor after being overlooked for the position following a lengthy contest to find a successor to Daniel Vettori.

Christchurch's Anglican and Catholic cathedrals may have to be demolished after sustaining further damage in the latest earthquake to rock the New Zealand city, church officials said on Thursday.

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New Zealand students have put their school on the map by etching giant phallic symbols onto its playing fields with weedkiller, in a prank immortalised on internet satellite service Google Earth.

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A New Zealand truck driver who inflated ‘like a balloon’ when he fell buttocks-first onto a compressed air nozzle was described as lucky to be alive on Wednesday.

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A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit off the northeast coast of New Zealand on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a local tsunami warning but said ther