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Yellowstone swallows people in a way the public rarely understands. It isn’t just the cliffs, the gorges, the sudden weather, or the predators. It’s the scale — mile after mile of wilderness that makes an ordinary disappearance feel inevitable, almost explainable. When someone vanishes in a place like that, the mind reaches for a comforting story: a slip, a fall, a bear, an accident. That’s exactly what everyone assumed happened to Kelly…

Vino Ramayah, the CEO of Manage My Health, couldn’t have summed up the contradiction at the heart of this mess any better. In one interview, he told RNZ last week that the doctor-patient relationship was “sacrosanct”, insisting his company would never compromise it. Then he admitted they’d “dropped the ball” on security, allowing hackers to stroll in “through the front door” with a stolen password. This wasn’t some elaborate cyber espionage; it…

This quick and easy sizzler is perfect for a simple, but flavour-packed, midweek meal to serve with rice and make the most of summer snap peas in their limited season. Ingredients · - 150g raw king prawns, peeled - 100g sugar-snap peas - ½ tbsp groundnut oil - 1 red chilli, halved, deseeded and finely sliced - ½ green chilli, halved, deseeded and finely sliced - 2 garlic cloves, finely sliced - ½ tbsp fish sauce - 3 tsp caster sugar -…

“The Free Speech Union warns that the United Kingdom's threat to block X entirely over Grok AI failures shows how online safety regulation rapidly escalates from addressing illegal content to silencing entire platforms." “UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed this week that all options are on the table, including blocking X under the Online Safety Act, after Grok AI was used to create child sexual abuse material. Indonesia became the first…

In my previous column, I argued that the Manage My Health breach revealed a hollowed-out state. But there’s something even more damning than the structural failures I outlined. This wasn’t a bolt from the blue. It was foreseeable. And it was ignored. Previous column click here · The most uncomfortable fact about the theft of 430,000 medical documents isn’t that hackers got in. It’s that someone tried to warn us six months earlier, and nothing…

Overnight results from the Global Dairy Trade auction showed prices rising more than 6 percent, reversing a slide that had seen the index fall nine times in five months. The lift comes after fears that farming, one of the few bright spots in last year’s economy, may have already peaked. · The increase was stronger than anticipated. Cristina Alvarado, head of dairy insights at the New Zealand Exchange, said a rise had been expected, but the size…

The New Zealand government confirmed it was represented at a high-level meeting in Paris involving the so-called Coalition of the Willing, a group of countries considering peacekeeping and security guarantees if a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia is achieved. New Zealand’s involvement, however, remains diplomatic rather than operational. · The meeting brought together Britain, France and other European allies, with a joint declaration…

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, New Zealand responded with unusual speed. Sanctions followed. Condemnations were issued. The language was unambiguous. We were told this was about defending the “rules-based international order” – a phrase our politicians have grown remarkably fond of. Winston Peters has deployed it frequently in his time as Foreign Minister. So where is that principled clarity now? · On Saturday, the United States…

The image we are taught is romantic and obsolete: ragged men, black flags, cannon smoke, plunder taken at sea. That version of piracy was crude, inefficient, and ultimately unsustainable. What replaced it was far more sophisticated—and far more destructive. The modern pirate does not board ships. He boards balance sheets, parliaments, and central banks. · To understand neo-piracy, we must begin where it was perfected: the British East India…

How much taxpayer funding will politicians spend this year on election advertising? It will be many, many millions of dollars, but we won’t know much about it, because the rules have been written to help MPs electioneer with parliamentary funding, without transparency. You would have already seen plenty of billboards and election ads for the various parties. National MPs have recently been carrying out a blitz of billboards and online ads, but…