New Zealand

Kiwi, Indian cricket boards confirm extra test and Twenty20

Kiwi, Indian cricket boards confirm extra test and Twenty20, Jan. 15 : New Zealand Cricket and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have announced a revised schedule for India''s cricket tour to New Zealand, which will now include an additional test and a second Twenty20 International.

A New Zealand Press Association report said Napier has been allocated the additional test from March 26 to 30, which will form part of a three-match series.

Turkish stores refuse to serve Israelis in New Zealand

Wellington - A Turkish Muslim café owner who refused to serve two Israeli women as a protest over the conflict in Gaza had clearly breached their human rights, New Zealand's Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres said on Thursday.

Mustafa Tekinkaya refused to serve the women in his cafe in Invercargill, saying that Israel was killing innocent babies and women in the Gaza Strip. "I have decided as a protest not to serve Israelis until the war stops," he told the Southland Times.

Ali Uzun, who owns the neighbouring Turkish Kebabs shop in New Zealand's southernmost city, told the paper he was also refusing to serve Israelis.

Second body of New Zealand glacier victim found

Second body of New Zealand glacier victim foundWellington - The body of Australian tourist Akshay Miranda, 22, who was trapped under 100 tons of ice when part of the terminal face of New Zealand's Fox Glacier collapsed, was recovered on Thursday, police said.

He was killed instantly with his brother Ashish, 24, on January 8 when they ignored warning signs and crossed a barrier to get a closer look at the glacier while on vacation with their parents from their home in Melbourne.

The body of Ashish was recovered at the time but melting ice meant it was too dangerous to find his brother.

Kohlschreiber's Open chances rest on shoulder scan after NZ pullout

Kohlschreiber's Open chances rest on shoulder scan after NZ pullout Auckland - German Philipp Kohlschreiber faces a fitness fight for Monday's start of the Australian Open after the Heineken Open holder pulled out before his Thursday quarter-final with a shoulder injury.

The decision handed a walkover to Spanish second seed David Ferrer and prevented a challenge between the last two winners of the ATP event.

Kiwi cops nab burglar by using Facebook!

FacebookLondon, January 14 : New Zealand police have taken into custody a burglar using the in-craze social networking website `Facebook'.

Queenstown police managed to identify and hunt down the 21-year-old, who tried to break open a local tavern safe, after posting his images and security-camera footage on the website.

"The offender was identified after a movie and images of him were displayed on Facebook," the Telegraph quoted the police as saying in a statement on its Facebook page.

Glacier tragedy family has to pay for car keys

Wellington  - When Australian Akshay Miranda, 22, was buried with his brother under a collapsing ice shelf on a New Zealand glacier, he had the keys of the family's rental car his pocket.

Akshay's body remains trapped under tonnes of ice at the Fox Glacier, but the rental company is billing his parents, Ronnie and Winnie Miranda of Melbourne, hundreds of dollars for a new transponder key and towing the car 418 kilometres back to its base in Christchurch.

"Nobody will do it for free," company director Edwin Chan told reporters Wednesday. "We feel for them."

But he added: "If there are things that are going to cost the company, we have no choice but to recover the costs."

Pages