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By Shawn Ashley

Starring Matt Damon, Joan Allen, and Scott Glenn The Bourne Ultimatum is the third and final movie in the Bourne Identity trilogy.

The movie hit theaters in New Zealand on August 23^rd and since then it’s rocked the box offices.

According to the New Zealand Herald, in it’s first week it brought in over $900,000, which is more than both Die Hard 4 and The Simpsons Movie. Read more

by Jackie Tran Van

Whether you love it or hate it our national game will draw passion from within you.

The lead up was such that the hours until kick-off were counted down with precision by the media.

How has it come to be that our news programmes, the place we go to find credible reports of what’s happening in our country and the world, has become yet another avenue for rugby to saturate the nation? Read more

by Vy-wen-foo

“Did you hear a gunshot this morning?”

One has to admit, that is highly unusual for a Friday morning greeting, especially one from my apartment resident. Like many other city apartments, tenants hardly get to see each other, better yet – greet each other.

As I was dancing around in my sleep on Thursday night,  a gunshot was allegedly fired in our apartment around 4.30am.

The neighbour was rudely awakened from her sleep having to convince her partner that she distinctively heard a gunshot. Read more

by Jaheb Barnett

The way we are finding our bargains these days has changed. Big time.

Online shopping has moved in and kicked out traditional shopping – where you would walk into a store and browse using your legs and whatnot.

Now, in the online world, all you need is a comfy seat. Read more

by Rochelle Grace

Celebrities reinforce the constant reminder that we need to stay gorgeous, fitter and younger.

A way that some gyms around the world are trying to promote fitness and health is to open 24 hours a day.

This unique service has been introduced to get more people to use gyms, and have been doing so by catering to the needs of different lifestyles. Read more

by Justin Henehan

Being a rabid cyclo-fiend, I immediately noticed the small posters of scribbled bicycle outlines all around Auckland city’s library building.

I had a closer look and saw something that rang my bicycle bell: a week before a friend had sent me a Quicktime teaser for a bicycle messenger documentary.

That Sunday also happened to be the day an iconic cafe and long-time Auckland cycle courier hang-out was to close forever. Read more

by Shawn Ashley

This year’s Auckland Seafood Festival was on this weekend, and like previous years it was filled with heaps of seafood, people, and entertainment.

However, there was something a bit different about it this year.

The festival was the first in New Zealand to have a “carbon neutral” status. Read more

by Thea Knight

Endangered bats native to New Zealand have been diagnosed with a mystery disease leaving them unable to fend for themselves.

In order to survive the twelve infected small-tailed bats have been moved from their home in the wild to Auckland Zoo so they can receive the special care they need.

The creatures are part of a breeding program set up to increase the species dwindling population. There are only 200 of this genetically unique group which was only recently discovered. Read more

by Matt Critton

What Kiwi, you might ask, would care about American football while the All Blacks are on their way to a rugby world cup title?

Better yet, what Kiwi cares about American football at all?

Few, if any, New Zealanders even know what the NFL is. However, I have been an avid supporter of the National Football League, and its top quarterback, Brett Favre, for as long as I can remember. Read more

by Angela Beswick

What is the world coming to when we not only have to worry about whether people who turn up at our parties are concealing knives, but we may also become a victim of a drive by shooting in an otherwise safe neighborhood?

Police are questioning two young people after two children were shot from a moving vehicle with a slug gun on East Coast Road in Castor Bay last week. Read more