Police and security staff had to separate the Francis Douglas Memorial College and New Plymouth Boy’s High School supporters following their annual match at Yarrow Stadium this afternoon. The schoolboy teams were playing in a curtain-raiser before the Super 15 Chiefs v Waratahs game. Trouble broke out on the terraces after the final whistle when Francis Read more
Chile’s president Michelle Bachelet has announced her decision to push for legalised abortion, while at the same time calling for better care of pets. Ms Bachelet called for more “care, control and wellbeing” for pets. “With all due respect for pets, I think the person and human life are worth much more than that,” Cardinal Read more
A Sudanese Christian mother sentenced to hang for apostasy has given birth to a baby girl in a Khartoum prison. Meriam Yehya Ibrahim was last month sentenced to death after refusing to renounce her faith. Mrs Ibrahim was raised as an Orthodox Christian by her mother, but her absent father was Muslim. The Public Order Read more
Google now beats talking to friends for young Kiwis with emotional or health problems, a survey has found. The Colmar Brunton national survey of 403 people aged 16 to 24 found that 64 per cent of young people said Google or other websites were the most common places their peers would go to “access information Read more
German Cardinal Reinhard Marx has lamented the results of European Parliament elections, which saw gains for nationalist and “eurosceptic” parties. These included UKIP in the United Kingdom and French National Front. “A matter of concern is the significant increase of support for parties which reject the project of European integration,” said Cardinal Marx. “Some of Read more
The Minister of Treaty Negotiations, Chris Finlayson is keen that iwi are better supported in a post-settlement world. Mr Finlayson says he is keen that iwi are not left on their own once their Treaty of Waitangi legislation was passed and the Crown could do better to help iwi make the transition, reports Radio New Read more
Garin College came up trumps again at this year’s Nelson final of the Smokefreerockquest, and the winning band say their music teacher is to thank for their success. Last night the sold-out Theatre Royal was rocking with 12 acts who made it through to the Nelson Rockquest final, with teens, younger siblings and even grandparents Read more
Catholic doctors who want to follow Church teaching on sexual ethics have been told they can’t train as gynaecologists in the United Kingdom. Charlie O’Donnell, a consultant in emergency and intensive care medicine, sounded this warning at a Catholic Medical Association Conference in the UK. He said the best advice he could give to an Read more
Over 30 young song writers from around New Zealand composed lyrics and performed songs on ways to help improve the lives of people struggling with poverty, oppression, injustice or hopelessness, for Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand’s SingOut4Justice competition. The annual competition invited students from all colleges and high schools across the country, to consider ways a Read more