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Pictured above: Kiri Te Kanawa, Valerie Vili, Lucy Lawless, The Black Sox, and Sam Neill
NEW ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES
New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in The New York Times, Brisbane Times, Xinhua News, Bust Magazine, Financial Times, San Francisco Gate, The Independent on Sunday, ShortList, Thaindian News and Times Online ABC News, WA Today, Los Angeles Times, Vogue Australia, Telegraph, Art & Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Korea Times and Guardian include:
• Kiri Te Kanawa, 65, to retire after Der Rosenkavalier, April ‘10
• Valerie Vili, 25, throws shotput 20.44m, takes gold at World Champs
• Lucy Lawless , 41, Spartacus star, "being naked on-screen no fun"
• Black Sox, NZ softball team, perform "scary" haka at World Champs
• Sam Neill turns down knighthood for being "just far too grand"
• Sarah Walker, BMXer, 21, wins World Champs, Adelaide
• Lisa Reihana, artist, alternative reading of her work put forward
• Ngaire Woods on recession and theory of “global regulatory capture”
• Peter Jackson's District 9, "rarity" for not being an adaptation, remake
• Swheeb, pedal-powered monorail, a direct response to future traffic
• Peter Yealands, to wrangle miniature sheep as lawnmowers
• Ted Jessep, All Black then Wallaby in first ever Bledisloe match in '34
• Wellington's "glam beer hall" Mighty Mighty, BATS Theatre, profiled
• David Jeffries, recent UK émigré, misses nothing about home
• Peter Jackson on Dam Busters: "bombing raid in 3D would be neat"
• New Zealand from a camper van opens doors to local conversation
• Rhys Darby, comedian, 35, stands up in London and soon Edinburgh
• Dr Kevin Burns, says NZ trees evolved camouflage to cope with moa
• Waiheke, Martinborough, Waipara Valley tempt epicurious Aussies
• NZ Fashion Week, to showcase Pamela Anderson's eco-swimwear
• Jim Eagles, NZ Herald journo, takes to Korean karaoke in Seoul
• New Zealand leading world in fight against overfishing
• New Zealand Syrah and Sav, best in the world at 2009 IWC
• St Mary's Bay property, Auckland high-end real estate for foreigners
• Kaikoura's Dolphin Encounter, swimming with "tarts of the ocean"
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Top picture, Dunstan Range, Central Otago; above, Wakatipu Basin, Queenstown. More pictures at http://www.paradiseroad.com/. Fern symbol via http://www.nzflag.com/.
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