The New Zealand Herald
Yachting: China plans America's Cup tilt
Xavier de Lesquen of Le Defi fame will lead the Chinese challenge.
09.03.05 1.00pm
China could have a boat in the 2007 America's Cup if an ambitious plan by an investor comes off.
Wang Chaoyong, head of China Equity Investment, has announced that China Team is joining forces with French former America's Cup outfit Le Defi.
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Chechen leader's death a boost for Putin
Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov had been hiding in a reinforced cellar in Tolstoy-Yurt outside Grozny when he was killed. Picture / Reuters
09.03.05 1.00pm
MOSCOW - Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov has been killed by Russian security forces, authorities said, giving a boost to President Vladimir Putin's hardline campaign to crush the separatist rebellion in Chechnya.
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Probe launched into unsolved Northern Ireland killings
09.03.05 1.00pm
BELFAST - The government has said it is launching a police review of hundreds of unsolved killings during three decades of violence in Northern Ireland, in a move aimed a at drawing a line under the province's bloody past.
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Hizbollah draws vast pro-Syrian crowds in Beirut
A woman holds up a poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a pro-Syrian rally in central Beirut. Picture / Reuters
09.03.05 7.50am
BEIRUT - Hundreds of thousands of flag-waving Lebanese flooded central Beirut on Tuesday for a pro-Syrian rally called by the Hizbollah militant group that dwarfed previous protests demanding that Syrian troops leave Lebanon.
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Cyclone Ingrid heads towards Queensland coast
08.03.05 1.10pm
BRISBANE - Severe tropical Cyclone Ingrid is edging closer to the north Queensland coast, with her destructive presence expected to be felt as early as tomorrow.
The wild storm system has intensified into a category five cyclone and at 7am (10am NZT) was 330km east northeast of Cooktown and moving west northwest at about 8km/h.
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The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Cloudy
-17.0°
Updated Wednesday 09 Mar 9:59PM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
43 °F / 6 °C
Overcast
Windchill:
38 °F / 3 °C
Humidity:
76%
Dew Point:
36 °F / 2 °C
Wind:
8 mph / 13 km/h from the ESE
Pressure:
29.98 in / 1015 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Mostly Cloudy 5000 ft / 1524 m
Overcast 8000 ft / 2438 m
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