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Burj Khalifa- Worlds Tallest Building (International)
Burj Khalifa- Worlds Tallest Building was unveiled- after nearly 6 years being built. it santd 828m tall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Link:http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/3207758/Worlds-tallest-building-unveiled -
Avatar Beats Titanic's Record (International)
Avatar bests Titanic's record selling$1.841 billion dollars worth of tickets in it's unbroken 6 week reign, beating Titanic's $1.242 billion, world wide
Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/3259753/Avatar-beats-Titanics-record -
Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland (international)
Tim Burtons adaptation of Alice in Wonderland has proved to be a major success this year grossing over 1 billion in the worldwide box office.
Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/3404510/Film-review-Alice-in-Wonderland -
Government to raise driving age (national)
Government to raise driving age to 16, to try and reduce road accidents and deaths. It also means many people espically in the country will not be able to travel as easily because of this.
Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/3393819/Government-to-raise-driving-age -
82nd Oscar Awards (International)
The Oscar awards were held on 7th march 2010, The Best Picture winner for 2009 was The Hurt Locker, it also won 6 other oscars including best director, Kathryn Bigelow was the first female director to win the directors Oscar. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/3418843/Oscars-Ceremony-2010/ -
3D TVs are Launched worl wide (international)
3D Tvs are launched worldwide. Meaning the way we watch tv will cahnge forever, people now have to opportunity to view many programmes in 3D when a 3D channel is launched by sky in the near future, to view the programme in 3D you must wear special glasses which at the momnet are quite expensive companies are frantically designing new glasses which are the cheapest to make people buy from them. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/3935601/Gadget-review-Samsung-Series-7-3D-TV -
Iceland Volcano - Causes Travel Havoc (International)
A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano spread out across Europe on Friday causing air travel chaos on a scale not seen since the September 11 attacks and costing airlines hundreds of millions of dollars. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/3592876/Iceland-volcano-ash-travel-havoc-worst-since-9-11 -
Ministers' Credit records cause scandal (National)
Credit card scandals with Labour Mp's causes uproar and Labour gets knocked down.
Many MP's Have been caught spending the governments money on things they shouldn't have such as dinner's, accomodation, room service and flights, causing many complaints about their spending.
The worst spenders include Shane Jones, Mita Ririnui and Chris Carter
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Boy NZ film (National)
Taika Waititi's hit film Boy has earned $8.4 million at the box office since its release in March, rocketing it to No. 3 spot of the all-time top New Zealand films in real terms. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/3799592/Boy-breaks-box-office-records -
Utah firing squad executes convicted killer (international)
Death row inmate Ronnie Lee Gardner has died in a barrage of bullets as Utah carried out its first firing squad execution in 14 years.
Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/3827671/Death-by-firing-squad-in-Utah -
All Whites hold off Italy (International)
The All Whites Hold off Italy (the current world champions) at the soccer world cup to tie 1-1 Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/fifa-world-cup/all-whites/3832793/Gritty-All-Whites-defence-holds-off-Italy -
Longest Tennis Match in history (International)
John Isner and Nicolas Mahut broke all the records books with a 10 hour tennis match the longest match in history. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/tennis/3848093/Isner-Mahut-re-write-tennis-record-books -
Paul the Octopus (international)
Paul the Octopus Guesses winners for the Soccer World cup matches with 100% correct. Many fans who were betting on the games waited to see Paul guesses as they began to trust his judgement. 100% is almost unheard of a Paul amazed many people with his guessing talents. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/fifa-world-cup/3900293/Paul-the-Octopus-predicts-Spain-to-win -
Apple Ipad released in NZ (national)
Apple lauched its Ipad in NZ today. Many peopel were queing up for the highly anticipated release of the Ipad in NZ. Ipad's are the latest invention from Apple, they are divices similar to iphones but larger screens for easier viewing and different functions. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/3275754/Review-Apple-iPad -
Flooding in Pakistan (international)
Flooding in Pakistan hits 12million people, the worst ever in Pakistan, causing many families who do not have much to lose all they had. The damage will cost millions to repair and for a poverty striken country it will take along time before they are fully recovered. http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/4000811/Half-million-flee-as-more-floods-sweep-Pakistani -
Mt Hutt struck by avalanche (National)
Mt Hutt was closed today after being hit by two avalanches. It had only just re-opened 2days ago. 12th Aug - 1000 people were forced to stay on the mountain as the weather conditions were unsafe. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4008622/Mt-Hutt-struck-by-avalanche -
Toy Story 3 breaks box office records (international)
Toy Story 3 breaks box office records to become the top-grossing animated film world wide beating out Shrek 2. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/4026086/Toy-Story-3-breaks-box-office-record -
The First Youth Olympics (international)
The First Youth Olympics are being held in Singapore this year. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/sport/national-sport/4023917/57-strong-NZ-team-for-Youth-Olympics -
World's Biggest Scone (National)
World's Largest scone, was baked by Sheena Southey and Annette McGregor and weighing 121kgs Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/4042792/Scone-top-of-the-world -
Legal Age for Buying Alcohol Raised (national)
New Zealand has increased the age for buying alcohol to 20 but kept the drinking age at hotels and bars at 18. The reason for this was to try and reduce the alcohol consumption of younger people which is an increasingly ongoing problem in NZ. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/372446 -
Emmy Awards 2010 (international)
Mad Men and Modern Family won the top awards for best drama series (mad men) and best comedy series (modren family), they also won other awards. making them the dominant programmes featured at the awards. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/search?k=Emmies&label=Emmys -
Hurricane Earl (international)
Hurricane Earl threatens the US as it heads straight for the US coast. Luckly not much damage was caused by the Hurrricane as it slowly 'fizzled' out near Canada, one man unfortunately lost his life while trying to save his boat. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/4078680/Hurricane-Earl-threatens-US -
Christchurch is hit by a massive earthquake (International)
Christchurch is hit by a massive earthquake.
The 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Canterbury is the most damaging since the 1931 magnitude 7.8 Hawke's Bay earthquake, scientists say. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/4094979/Huge-earthquake-rocks-Christchurch -
9 Dead in Fox Glacier plane crash (national)
9 People were killed and one injured at Fox Glacier airport. Investigations will be on going as to why this happened. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/south-island/4096456/Nine-people-killed-in-Fox-Glacier-plane-crash -
Southern Motorway Closed (national)
The southern motorway in Auckland was closed at 5pm today so repairs and upgrades could take place, this caused a lot of people to alter their travel arangements. The motorway was reopened earlier than expected, by late the next day Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4097668/Auckland-motorway-work-winds-up-early -
Aucklands Super City (national)
Aucklands Super City was formed, with the first council being elected on 1st of Nov. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/3022375/Plan-for-Auckland-supercity-revealed -
Fears for NZ's Kiwifruit industry (national)
New Zealand's kiwifruit industry is under threat since an out break of the disease PSA which kills the vine. this will pose a threat to profits if not resolved quickly.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/4338776/Kiwifruit-disease-fears-spread -
Pike River Mine Explosion (national)
Friday 3.45pm: First reports of explosion of toxic gases at Pike River mine , 50km north-east of Greymouth. 29 miners are trapped in the mine, an ogoing rescue is taking place to rescue the miners, help has been offered from as far away a China and many mine rescue teams have been organised so they can go into the mine as sson as it is safe. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4368031/Mine-explosion-timeline -
Kiwis win Four Nations (national)
Kiwis win Four Nations (rugby league) title beating Kangaroos 16-12. This is the first time the kiwi have one the four nations and 5 years since they won the tri-nations as it previously was called. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/photos/4342972/Four-Nations-final-Kiwis-vs-Kangaroos -
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (international)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 is coming out this year, the last of the Harrry Potter series. Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/558345
