94 – New Zealanders in Global Headlines February 28

New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in The Independent, The Age, Earth Times, Variety, The Washington Times, The Telegraph, International Herald Tribune, Wanderlust, Financial Times, The Murfreesboro Post, Daily Mail, The Economic Times, Men's Vogue, Guardian, BBC and The New York Times include:

• Flight of the Conchords, Best Comedy Grammy for Distant Future
• Going as far as I can, provocative NZ anti-travel book "charming"
• No Fins, Freediver William Trubridge to attempt new world record
• Sir Ed honoured, Nepal's newly-named Tenzing-Hillary airport
• Anne Noble's Ruby's Room begins European tour, Quai Branly
• Pietra Brettkelly, Sundance Award for "enigmatic" Art Star
• Christchurch International Airport certified as carbon neutral
• Ian Conrich, academic, awarded "NZer of the Year in the UK"
• Maori moko images on show at Peabody Essex Museum
• Seachange hopes for NZ first at Royal Ascot horse races
• Top Country award for NZ in Wanderlust readers' poll
• Read Gainsford, pianist, performs for students in Tennessee
• Christchurch, "Happy mix" of past and future, Financial Times
• Graham Percy, "cerebral" children's book illustrator, dies, 69
• Valerie Reid's doco, Sand Dancer, appeals to Festival goers
• NZ Crop & Food Institute develop gene-silencing, "no tears" onion
• Culinary tour of NZ cuisine from Wellington to Arthur's Pass
• Christopher Liddell, Microsoft CFO's Yahoo challenge
• Mark Adams exhibits Tatau: Samoan Tattooing in Ontario
• NZ dialect 5-year linguistics study of origin concluded
• Alan Gibbs commissions NY video artist Tony Oursler
• NZ scenery favours romance, drawcard for Indian tourists
• Brad Knewstubb, designer, awarded red dot for "Hydra" turbine
• John Minto turns down South African government nomination
• Rob Thomson, Canterbury, 26, boards for Guinness Record
• Shigeyuki Kihara's photographic works acquired by NY's Met
• Black Jacks top medal table at World Bowls Champs, Burnside

For full stories see http://www.nzedge.com/media, a 6,000-story storehouse of international activities by New Zealanders 2000-08.

Photos: The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins by Pietra Brettkelly, Ruby's Room by Anne Noble and portrait of Piri Iti by Hans Neleman, exhibited at Massachusetts Peabody Essex Museum.

93 – New Zealanders in Global Headlines February 7

New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in New York Times, Times, Wall St Journal, BBC, Guardian, Financial Times, The Age, ABC News, Monocle, Tatler, St George Leader, NDTV India and New Eurasia include:

• Janet Frame’s “rare state of freedom” recalled by Jane Campion
• Poet Hone Tuwhare (No Ordinary Sun) dies, Dunedin, 86
• Blenheim’s Aquaflow Bionomic proposes global fuel solution
• Tauranga transforms from Pleasantville to gutsy export tiger
• Alexander Vineyard, Martinborough, taps Kazakhstan
• Paige Hareb, Taranaki teen, surfs into Billabong World Pro final
• Outram Paralympian ski racer Adam Hall wins US Huntsman Cup
• GG Anand Satyanand on commitment to overcome race disparities
• Kate Dewes appointed to UN Advisory Board on Disarmament
• Daisy Wilkie, Te Rauparaha kin, sits for Archibald Prize portrait
• Matakana Village gets global rep as gourmand’s delight
• NZ luxury lodges and “flashpacks” make best-in-world lists
• Brendan MacFarlane's remake of 13th arrondissement in Paris
• Black Beauty driver Jonny Reid wins A1 Grand Prix in Taupo
• Te Haumi Maxwell, 13, “best prospect since Ian Thorpe”
• Liam Finn’s solo debut, I’ll Be Lightning “spare, melodic” – WSJ
• Jonny Reid races Boeing 777 for A1 Grand Prix stunt: draw

For full stories see http://www.nzedge.com/media, a 6,000-story storehouse of international activities by New Zealanders 2000-08.

Photos: ski racer Adam Hall, swimmer Te Haumi Maxwell, and Kerry Fox as Janet Frame in Jane Campion’s Angel at My Table.

My thanks to Clare Marshall who has edited the newzedge pages of nzedge.com since 2002. She has tracked and filed about 4,000 stories about the international achievements of New Zealanders. A great contribution to a unique resource. Clare commences as an editor with Melbourne University Publishing. Our best wishes. Brian Sweeney