Bindi Irwin dishes advice on family planning

With Bindi Irwin about to turn 15 this week the Wildlife Warrior is keen to debate the serious issues of family planning and birth control to curb the overpopulation of the planet. The teenaged daughter of the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, has told News Ltd that she’s been wanting to tackle bigger issues facing the world today

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Rachel Hunter talent-spotting

Boys, you have two months to get rid of that beer gut and practise your chat-up lines – Kiwi supermodel Rachel Hunter, right, is coming home, and she’s single. Hunter is back as a judge for the second series of New Zealand’s Got Talent – joining OpShop lead singer Jason Kerrison and J-Lo’s ex-husband Cris Judd – and she will be home in July to start filming.

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Lake folk wallow in dodgy business up to their necks

The only bum note so far in Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake (UKTV, Monday) has been the lousy accent of American actress Elisabeth Moss. I’m sure there would have been a swarm of local actresses who could have done a far better job of playing Kiwi detective Robin Griffin – for instance, Robyn Malcolm, who is also in the mix playing an American

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Afghanistan Snow Leopard Death: NATO Can’t Save Rare Cat

In a valley high in the Wakhan Mountains of Afghanistan, a hunter several weeks ago waded through snowdrifts to check his traps and found that he had snared one of the rarest creatures alive: a snow leopard. If a naturalist had seen the leopard, he or she would have focused on its snowy fur with black, half-moon markings and its white goatee

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U.S. retains Presidents Cup lead

Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker’s partnership continued to flourish as they helped the United States take a 6.5 – 5.5 lead at the end of the second day of the Presidents Cup on Friday. World number one Woods and Stricker defeated international pairing of Australian Geoff Ogilvy and Argentinean Angel Cabrera decisively by 5 and 3 in San Francisco.

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