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Watch: Aurora lights up skies above New Zealand

Shades of blue and green were captured on camera shimmering across the sky on Sunday.

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New Zealand bans non-resident foreigners from buying homes

New Zealand's government is banning non-resident foreigners from buying homes. The new law, which was passed yesterday, is part of a plan to bring down house prices and boost home ownership in the country. The move fulfils an election campaign pledge by the Labour Party-led government,

USA

California fire to burn until September

Firefighters in California say they are making good progress battling a blaze that covers an area larger than the city of Los Angeles

New Zealand

NZ company says four-day work week trial a success

A New Zealand company which trialled a four-day work week said the experiment was a success with staff registering a big bump in work-life balance while productivity remained level.

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New Zealand PM gives birth to baby girl

Jacinda Ardern in only the second elected leader in recent times to give birth while in office

New Zealand

Giant sinkhole opens up in New Zealand

Sinkholes are caused by water dissolving limestone below the surface of the earth

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Storm Damage in New Zealand

Huge waves crashed into the shores of Nelson in New Zealand, as a downgraded cyclone left behind debris and destruction

New Zealand

Feline sad: internauts mourn death of prime minister’s cat

Jacinda Ardern's ginger moggy was hit by a car.

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New Zealand offer to take 150 refugees from Papua New Guinea camp

New Zealand has offered to take 150 refugees, who have currently barricaded themselves inside the Manus Island detention centre, in a bid to help Australia defuse the Papua New Guinea stand-off.

New Zealand

Jacinda Ardern sworn in as new PM of New Zealand

New Zealand swears in Jacinda Ardern.

World

Try and you shall succeed: New Zealand rugby players on winning the Princess of Asturias Award for Sport

Former members of the world's most-feared international rugby squad speak with Euronews about cups, competitions and concussions after receiving the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports 2017.

New Zealand

Jacinda Ardern is to be the New Zealand prime minister

After an inconclusive result in the New Zealand elections, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters held the power

New Zealand

'Chipocalypse' now as New Zealanders face up to a crisp crisis

A winter of unprecedented rainfall has devastated the country's potato crop

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Watch: Endangered young albatross takes to the skies for the first time

Sport

Hero's welcome for victorious Black Ferns in NZ

The team beat England 41-32 in a thrilling Women's Rugby World Cup final in Belfast

New Zealand

Flagging Labour in New Zealand chooses youngest-ever leader weeks ahead of election

Badly trailing in the polls two months ahead of a general election, New Zealand's Labour party hopes its new, youngest-ever leader will revive its fortunes

Sport

Epic showdown between All Blacks and Lions

Bermuda

New Zealand win America's Cup

New Zealand lift sailing's greatest prize - The America's Cup, beating Team USA 7:1 in Bermuda

Sport

Lions to face All Blacks in Auckland

The British and Irish Lions warm up for Saturday's showdown with the All Black's at Eden Park

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Unfinished Hundertwasser art project revived in NZ

Ambitious project in New Zealand for world’s last building by late Austrian artist Hundertwasser reaches funding target