"Michael Cullen's new label for National leader John Key, "slippery John", might be a clumsy schoolyard taunt by comparison.

zhong guo loosely translated as the middle kingdom
zhong essentially being the centre, or middle
i'd like zhong de fries
zhong also forming an essential component of the word important

well this one certainly took me by surprise:

Miss Clark said she was not interested in intruding in anyone's life. Kiwis had "as much liberty, if not more liberty, than anywhere else on Earth".

...as no less than 6 nu zeland police officers look on and do nothing.

Who bet on the antichrist being a guy called dick?

Debbie Scurr's husband will be eating his words about now or rejoicing in the fact that he gets to live with this year's Speight's Perfect Woman.

a quiet day for new zealand