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as of 07.01.2009 00:00

• Boy and girl, six and seven, try to elope to sunny Africa
• Two hundred years after its invention, is Braille under threat?
• John Roughan: Sweet ordeal for father of a bride
• Singe city
• Cable Bay Vineyards, Waiheke
• Randell returns for Kiwi lifestyle
• Lucy Siegle: Look for the break-even point
• Cliff Taylor: Affirmative action
• Thanks for the gift, but I wanted cash
• Room for family to grow
• That Guy: Making small changes to ring in big success
• Kerre Woodham: Of loot and lust
• Wendyl Nissen: Resolve to dissolve in the new year
• Kerre Woodham: My best b'day
• Noelle McCarthy: Rapunzel, I know now how you feel
• Mirko Bagaric : Lessons to self, via Paris
• Jim Hopkins: Those small things that keep us going
• French baker cooks up a golden sales gimmick
• Muted New Year celebrations as the world digests 2008
• Dressed-up pancake turns into a full meal

• Angry US four-year-old shoots babysitter
• 'Medium' star files for divorce
• Toddler shoots babysitter
• US police find dead baby in garbage
• 78yo boy racer has car impounded in Australia
• Rocket launcher, grenades seized on PNG plane
• Five die in Texas homeless shelter fire
• Mexican woman in wheelchair flees on foot
• Ex-Boeing worker jailed for chopper sabotage
• 34 dead in Guatemala landslide
• Civilians caught in Gaza crossfire; truce elusive
• EU team tries to stop Gaza bloodshed
• India hands over Mumbai terror attack evidence
• Attack on police raises Greek terrorism fears
• Caroline Kennedy 'the next Sarah Palin'
• Female suicide bomber kills 38 Shiite pilgrims
• Obama kids start school with photographers in tow
• Abraham Rabinovich: Israel keen to show foes 'paper tiger' has teeth
• Obama's intel decisions surprise the spies
• Eight die in US helicopter crash

• Australian stocks: Market closes in the black
• NZ stocks: Market up 1.4pc in light trade
• Currency: Dollar climbs against greenback
• Goodman Property renews $900m funding facility
• Investors deserted NZX in 2008
• Christmas sales nothing to cheer about at Warehouse
• Dow Jones man to head up Lonely Planet
• Waterford Wedgwood calls in receivers
• Sad end to once-mighty Woolworths
• NZ stocks: Small early gains for sharemarket
• US airlines in row over pilot fatigue rules
• Ford and Toyota sales dismal in US
• Oil back up to US$47
• House prices - how far will they fall?
• Card transactions show record decline
• ANZ parent sets up as branch in New Zealand
• Q&A with Rickey Ward of Tyndall Investment Management
• Tech Tips: An IT miracle can help the bottom line
• Drug group shareholders out to claim board scalps
• Steve Jobs comes clean on health problems, will stay at Apple

• Tearful Warriors skipper refuses to believe Fai gone
• Cricket: Hadlee inducted into cricket's Hall of Fame
• Cricket: Vettori backs Indian call for extra test
• Soccer: World Cup whistleblower shot dead
• Warriors hopeful Sonny Fai still alive - Price
• Cricket: Sinclair, Napier on song with bat and ball
• All Blacks to play France in November
• Soccer: Blackburn set up Sunderland clash
• Cricket: Moores tipped to go by end of the week
• Hockey: Four newcomers in Black Sticks
• Chris Rattue: Sonny Fai destined for shining career
• Lost Warriors star Sonny Fai put others first
• Tennis: Super Tuesday beckons at Classic
• Tennis: Erakovic has losing start to tournament
• Cricket: Boucher blasts SCG pitch
• Cricket: Aussies on top as Siddle mops up tail
• Cricket: Ramdin grasps confidence boosting opportunity
• Cricket: Six off final ball breaks drought
• Soccer: Home victory ends wooden spoon race
• Soccer: Fifa 'blessing' strengthens Phoenix A-League future

• Woman who died from injuries after crash named
• Man dies diving in Far North
• Tearful Warriors skipper refuses to believe Fai gone
• UPDATED: Unattended cooking behind house fire which killed four children
• River collision victims named
• Car stopped for speeding had children asleep in boot
• Protesters call on NZ Govt to oppose Gaza attacks
• Police consider charges after Lake Taupo ski tragedy
• Repeat rapist fails in parole bid
• Elective surgery out of reach for most - survey
• Search for missing tramper enters final day
• Ski race to South Pole begins
• Warriors hopeful Sonny Fai still alive - Price
• Christchurch air quality improved - report
• Extortion victim on firearm charges
• Pledge for motorists on website security
• Aiming to get drunk biggest worry
• Theft of laptop from car leads to Harder times
• Good boaties are sober boaties is the message from Maritime NZ
• Strawberry seller robbed, terrorised at gunpoint

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as of 07.01.2009 00:00

• Harden up - buying an external disc drive
• Steve Jobs comes clean on health problems, will stay at Apple
• Hunting aXXo - pirate king of the Torrents, enemy of Hollywood
• Despite recession, CES still packed with cool gadgets
• Shhh! Gadget racket threatens pulsar research
• Apple in 2008 - the rising tide
• Tech Tips: An IT miracle can help the bottom line
• Google targeted in China's porn crackdown
• Pledge for motorists on website security
• Tech shows losing their buzz
• UK police get power to hack into PCs
• Electronics mega-show takes a caning as industry suffers
• Microsoft fixes Zune player clock-up
• 2008's new media killers and casualities
• Following the IT crowd
• Good boy, Rover. Nasa's Mars toy turns five
• Macworld - last rumour call
• Money pours in for Wikipedia upgrade
• Microsoft could cut up to 15,000 jobs
• Breastfeeding ban sucks, say web mums

• New Year's Eve on thin ice
• Europe snowstorm forces Eiffel Tower closure
• Disney to open American Idol Experience
• Hot deals : Chicago in Sydney
• Destinations made famous in 2008
• I'm going to London to visit the Queen
• Feasting on the pleasures of rural regions
• So this is Christmas?
• 'Hard year ahead' for Australian tourism
• Shanghai still a city full of surprises
• Heavens add extra drama to chiefly ritual
• Versace Mansion in South Beach begins tours
• Cold hands, warm heart?

• 78yo boy racer has car impounded in Australia
• Motorsport: Coma and Sainz set Dakar pace
• Motorsport: Sainz grabs Dakar lead
• Kiwi making history in Dakar Rally
• US$4b bailout for Chrysler
• Motorsport: Al Attiyah wins first stage of Dakar Rally
• Motorsport: Reid hungers after Lights, but there's one problem
• Breakdown services attend comedy callouts
• Toyota 'developing solar-powered car'
• Motorsport: Baird the man to beat

• Goodman Property renews $900m funding facility
• House prices - how far will they fall?
• Sliding home values boost property returns
• PM's $5.6m Hawaiian luxury pad
• Suburbs 'best buy' this year for investors
• Beauties on beachfront
• Leaky home ruins marriage, career
• Apartment owner's costly mistake

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