HAVANA (AP) The U.S. Treasury Department's inspector general has determined Jay-Z and Beyonce's fifth-anniversary trip to Cuba last year was legal under rules allowing educational travel to the island.The music superstars angered...
Thursday 21 August 2014
Sky TV profits surge 21pc to $165m
Sky Network Television, New Zealand's dominant pay-TV company, posted a better than expected 21 per cent gain in annual profit as it boosted revenue from more subscribers.The Auckland-based company said profit rose to $165.8...
NZ on Screen: Before they were politicians
With a general election looming, some MPs may be thinking about a life after politics, but what about their lives beforehand? Some of our best known politicians were captured on camera in some other walk of life long before they made...
Tour news: Sugar Man Rodriguez plans sweet NZ shows
Searching For Sugar Man star Sixto Rodriguez will play two New Zealand shows in October.He'll perform at Aotea Centre in Auckland on October 13, and the Wellington Opera House on October 16. He played for the first time here in...
Why Pamela Anderson won't do the ice bucket challenge
It is the latest internet craze that has seen dozens of celebrities and sports stars have freezing cold water poured over themselves for charity.But Pamela Anderson has refused to take part in the Ice Bucket Challenge - in aid of...
[VIDEO PREMIERE] Trinity Roots: Haiku
Watch the brand new video for the latest Trinity Roots single, Haiku , directed by the Renegade Peach Project - Mark Russell & Sophi Karin Reinholt. Mark Russell says about the video: "The video needed such a fast turnaround -...
Jeremy Clarkson warned: You're not bigger than the BBC
Jeremy Clarkson "does not see a problem" with the racist language he has used in the making of the hit show Top Gear, the BBC's director of television says.Danny Cohen told an audience at the Edinburgh International Festival that...
Hit Shakira song ruled an 'illegal copy'
Colombian pop star Shakira's 2010 hit song Loca is an illegal copy of a tune written by a Dominican musician in 1998, a US judge has said in a copyright trial.In a 40-page ruling, Judge Alvin Hellerstein said the song was a replication...
Accuser of 'X-Men' director seeks case dismissal
HONOLULU (AP) A former child model accusing "X-Men" director Bryan Singer of sex abuse in Hawaii says he wants to dismiss the lawsuit not because it lacks merit but because he can't find a new attorney to represent him.Michael...
Miley live: What to expect from her Auckland show
Ten years ago, Miley Cyrus embarked on her first tour. It was, she agrees, a little less demanding than her current Bangerz production."I was the opening act," she remembers. "We had no budget. No one cared I was there and my big...
Price of Block-winning home rises $139,000 since TV sale
The winning house from the first series of The Block NZ has sold for $1.1 million, an increase of $139,000 on its initial sale at a televised auction.The three-bedroom Takapuna house was rebuilt on the 2012 series by brother and...
Historic mansion bought for just £1 goes on the market for staggering
A DECREPIT 18th-century country mansion that once sold for just £1 has gone on the market for £2.3million.
Jon Hamm hopes Ferguson will come out stronger
LONDON (AP) Jon Hamm, a St. Louis native, says he hopes "cooler heads prevail" in the Missouri city of Ferguson and "people come through it for the better."Talking about the riots that followed the fatal shooting of 18-year-old...
Mento performer Joseph 'Powda' Bennett dies at 76
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) Jamaican folk musician Joseph Bennett, who played a rollicking genre of traditional dance music with the long-running Jolly Boys, has died in his Caribbean homeland. He was 76.Music promoter Jon Baker said...
Garden Of The Week: Wakehurst records UK first for rare Tasmanian Banksia
WAKEHURST gardeners are celebrating a UK first this week with the outdoors flowering of a rare Tasmanian Banksia marginata - known as the silver banksia or silver honeysuckle in Australia.
Great British Bake Off continues rise with another batch of record viewing figures
THE soaring popularity of cult cookery show Great British Bake Off shows no sign of stopping after another batch of record viewing figures.
'It's a sexy adventure into royalty' Elizabeth Hurley on new TV show The Royals
SHE may be playing a Queen in her latest role, but Elizabeth Hurley certainly hasn't based the part on Queen Elizabeth II.
Student life on a budget: A parents' guide to easing children into university life
AS TEENAGERS start preparing to head off to university, here are 10 ways concerned mums and dads can help their young ones survive their crucial first term
The Diary: Crusher Collins gets a laugh from resignation
She was the victim of a satirical resignation letter this week, but under-fire Cabinet minister Judith Collins insists the humour was not lost on her. For once this week, albeit briefly, the besieged Justice Minister had a chance...
Movie row buried four years on
Four years after a bitter industrial row over the filming of The Hobbit the New Zealand screen industry body Spada and actors union Equity have made their peace.Spada has signed an agreement with the union on terms and conditions...
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