Accoustic homecoming for Norris

The last time Jayson Norris was back home he met Tiki Taane for the first time at Wellington’s Homegrown festival. When he returns next month, he and Jess Harlen, another high-flying Kiwi abroad, will be sharing the stage with Taane on a nationwide acoustic tour, which kicks off in Tauranga on April 11

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Serena loses World No.1 spot to Safina

Dinara Safina will go to the top of the world rankings in place of Serena Williams after the American’s shock defeat at a tournament in Spain, the WTA announced on its official Web site www.sonyericssonwtatour.com. Williams went down 6-4 3-6 6-1 to Klara Zakopalova at the Andalucia Open in Marbella which means the Russian will go to world number one in the ranking lists released on April 20. Safina is only the second Russian woman, after Maria Sharapova, to claim the top spot and it will match the achievement of her brother Marat who was the top men’s player in the world in 2000

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U.S. to push for more NATO help in Afghanistan

Having just upped the ante in Afghanistan by 17,000 troops, the United States will look for greater commitments from its NATO partners this week, but isn’t expecting much of a response. “I think the likelihood of getting the allies to commit significant numbers of additional troops is not very great,’ U.S.

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