nzherald headlines Kerre Woodham : Legal logic gets torn asunder by crazed zealots I really don't like zealots. All that intensity and fervour - as well as all that hair - makes me very uneasy.The Waihopai Three, as the members of the Ploughshare anti-war movement have become known, walked free from court this... Motorsport: Bamber cuts Evans lead A new lap record wasn't enough for Mitch Evans to prevent Earl Bamber closing the points gap in the Toyota Racing Series in the opening race of the final round at Taupo yesterday.Bamber started from pole position, narrowly fended... Britain: Air pollution blamed for premature deaths More than 50,000 people are dying prematurely in the UK every year, and thousands more suffer serious illness because of man-made air pollution, according to a parliamentary report published tomorrow. The UK now faces the threat of... Worker killed as rubbish truck reverses down Mangere drive A worker on a South Auckland household rubbish truck was killed yesterday after being hit by the vehicle as it was reversing.The truck, owned by Manukau City Council contractor Alpha Refuse Collections, had nosed into a driveway... Nazi-era Picasso up for sale Christie's auction house says it will sell a celebrated Pablo Picasso portrait that was the subject of a dispute about its Nazi-era ownership. Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto (The Absinthe Drinker) is expected to fetch between... Tracey Barnett: Mad Men boys' club fails to capture a female market A young woman stands in front of a mirror in the commercial, getting ready for the evening. She takes some tissue, lovingly rubs its softness against her cheek for a minute, then - according to everyone's idea of a good time - stuffs... Watermelons block motorway Two tons of watermelons blocked Auckland's southern motorway after a truck rolled south of the Newmarket viaduct this morning.The crash, just before 6am, created a mess across all three lanes which contractors took two hours to... Severe weather warning for south Heavy rain and severe gales are expected to sweep over the country tomorrow, with forecasters issuing a severe weather warning and advising people to keep an eye on the weather.Rain and thunderstorms are due to hit Westland and... BMW's soft option BMW wants to grow its business. A high-riding compact soft-roader suits the Kiwi lifestyle, and X1 is deliberately priced to overlap the similarly focused mainstream. What's new Not the underpinnings, which are 3 Series Touring... Receivers dismiss Strategic boss Receivers have let go $550,000-a-year Strategic Finance chief executive Kerry Finnigan and departed from Princes Wharf offices.John Fisk, a PricewaterhouseCoopers partner now in charge with Colin McCloy, said Finnigan no longer... | 
