Our Lorde is more interesting than our Lord, according to trends that track what people are searching online, and from where. Pop royal Lorde, 17, otherwise known as Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O’Connor, was the most-searched New Zealander in 2013,
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Lorde ‘feeling good’ about Grammys
Lorde’s style sets global fashion trend
Death in Remuera
REVIEW: Gangland monikers of Auckland’s mobsters were once like famed American writer Damon Runyan’s string of exotic names for fictional gangsters. From the Auckland name-calling: Trevor (“Too Fats” ) Smith, Barry (“Machine gun”) Shaw, “Spats Charlie”, “Pinky”, Claude (“Pooch”) Quintal, “Diamond Jim” Shepherd, believed the last Mr Asia survivor, Frank (“The Tank”) Zimmerman, “Fred the Head”, Leon (“Lucky”) White , “Big George” Curtis and “Knucklehead” Walker
Kimye join weird baby namers
A tribute to Kiwi musical talent
Bill Culbert returns to Venice
Bill Cuthbert returns to Venice
Let’s talk about Adam Hills and Joan Rivers
Facebook Helps FBI
Investigators led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and aided by Facebook Inc, have busted an international criminal ring that infected 11 million computers around the world and caused more than $850 million in total losses in one of the largest cybercrime hauls in history. The FBI, working in concert with the world’s largest social network […]