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Julie Leven and her husband Des brought their camper up to visit their son in northern New South Wales, Australia, just before Christmas last year. They noticed masses of white dots moving over the black road surface as they drove back to their house in Gilgandra, some 430 kilometers northwest of Sydney, at night. They immediately discovered the dots were mice. (Photo : Wikimedia Commons) Lovely presentation of a totally disgusting story: Australias apocalyptic mouse plague   When the Levens...

Wellington.Scoop Sewage was overflowing on the corner of Woodward Street and Lambton Quay late this afternoon. Wellington Water said its team were “working to unblock the pipe and clean up the area.” And it warned: please avoid Woodward Street if you can. At 5.30: We have made good progress making the site safe and directing foot and vehicle traffic away from the area. We have stopped the discharge of wastewater and disinfected the footpath and road affected. We will now use CCTV to invest...

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Press Release – Kea New Zealand Kea honours Peter Cooper as World Class Supreme Award Winner for 2021 Kea World Class New Zealand … Kea honours Peter Cooper as World Class Supreme Award Winner for 2021 Kea World Class New Zealand Supreme Winner, Peter Cooper New Zealand’s global network for offshore Kiwi, Kea, has celebrated an impressive line-up of our global achievers at The Kea World Class Awards 2021, held at Shed 10, Auckland last night. The Awards ceremony inducted six new Kea Wor...

Melanie Carroll05:00, Jun 04 2021 Talented Kiwis who returned home amid the Covid-19 pandemic are confident they can thrive here despite some challenges. As Covid-19 began rolling around the world last year and countries slammed their doors shut to contain the pandemic, many New Zealanders chose to return home. Three recipients of KEA’s World Class New Zealander Award on Thursday night said Covid-19 was a factor in their return, and in their decision to stay, but the timing was also right t...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un named a new "representative" to the ruling party, indicating his willingness to delegate.

North Korea shuns ‘capitalistic lifestyle’ with more fashion bans MalaysiaNow 2 hrs ago © Provided by MalaysiaNow Kim Jong Un is taking further steps to ensure that the citizens of his hermit country are not enticed by the influences of outside cultures by enacting a new round of bans on fashions and passions deemed part of Capitalist culture. Among the latest things banned are “non-socialist” haircuts. These include mullets, spiked cuts and dyed hair. Western fashion trends like sk...

You can't beat Wellington on a good day - but Wellington's good days are getting few and far between. 

20/05/2021 Watch: On the streets with police as Wellington battles crime spike. Credits: Video - Newshub; Image - The AM Show/Getty Images The Detail is a daily news podcast produced for RNZ by Newsroom and is published on Newshub with permission. Click on this link to subscribe to the podcast. Decrepit water and sewerage pipes, a spike in crime in the city centre, bickering councillors, empty old buildings. The "coolest little capital" is weighed down by some big problems. "There are a ...

North Korean media claims that Kim Jong Un was "such a natural at military strategy that he was instructing the instructors rather than learning from them."