A strong 5.2-magnitude aftershock rocked the quake-shattered New Zealand city of Christchurch on Saturday and cut power to several areas, but there were no immediate reports of damage, officials said.

A depressed New Zealander cut off a finger, cooked it with vegetables and then ate it in a rare case of self-cannibalism, according to a report in the Australasian Psychiatry publication.

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Former Australian national coach John Buchanan, who guided the side to three World Cups, was confirmed on Friday as New Zealand’s new director of cricket.

Cameras started rolling on Monday on director Peter Jackson’s production of The Hobbit, following months of delays on the prequel to his Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy.

New Zealand cricket coach John Wright has given his players the go ahead to be at their aggressive best against Sri Lanka when the two sides face off in the first semifinal of the cricket World Cup in Colombo on Tuesday.

Prime Minister John Key announced on Wednesday that general elections will be held in New Zealand in November an unusually lengthy heads-up he said was designed to avoid any distractions during the rugby World Cup.

The New Zealand military released hundreds of previously classified reports Wednesday detailing claims of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings and alien encounters.

Men really are hopeless, and stingy, when it comes to Christmas shopping.

The search for 17 missing crewmen from a South Korean trawler that sank without warning off Antarctica was called off on Tuesday, rescuers said, bringing the death toll from the tragedy to 22.

Peter Jackson’s troubled The Hobbit project was embroiled in a race row Monday over a casting agent sacked for telling a would-be extra she was too dark to play one of the pint-sized creatures.