Prize for bringing moa back to life

Quinn Berentson has won $2500 for resurrecting the moa – in his award-winning book, Moa: The life and death of New Zealand’s legendary bird. It is among three winners of the New Zealand Society of Authors’ Best First Book Awards, and was described by chief judge John Campbell as “a really great historical biography, in which almost everyone (including the bird itself) is varying degrees of mad”.

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1D rehearse to fans’ shrieks

One Direction are reportedly rehearsing for their Take Me Home world tour to the sound of screaming girls. The English-Irish boyband, comprised of Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne, kicked off the world trek in London on February 23 but apparently their fans’ shrieks have become distracting

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Ferrari Outlaw, Justin Bieber Was Pulled Over By Police and Then Instagramed Photo’s to Friends

  Justin Bieber went joyriding in a Ferrari Tuesday night and got stopped by cops.   Cruising   Justin was cruising through West Hollywood around 6:30PM in a sick white Ferrari when an LA County Sheriff’s deputy hit the strobes and sirens. Got a couple shots of the Biebs as he was pulled over. Witnesses […]

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Are Danny Devito and Rhea Perlman Considering Divorce?

  Rumor has it, Danny Devito and Rhea Perlman are talking about ending their 41 year relationship, of which 30 years they have been married.  Danny Devito and Rhea Perlman announced their separation after 30 years of marriage — and even though they didn’t go the distance … shouldn’t they celebrate making it that long? […]

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Attacks on Christians: Can Egypt Deal With Extremist Mobs?

On the night of March 8 Yasser Makram was on his way home from work, his pick-up truck full of garbage as he turned up the winding dirt road on the edge of Egypt’s capital, to approach his home in the crowded Cairo slum known popularly as Garbage City. As he inched around a curve, he saw a swarm of people running towards the truck in his rearview mirror.

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