Auckland - Top seed Elena Dementieva accomplished what around 20 protestors could not as she sent Israeli Shahar Peer out in the quarter-finals of the ASB Classic on Thursday.

Peer, who underwent Israeli military training which took time away from her tennis in recent season, had been the target of protests against her country's current invasion of Gaza in the Middle East, but had insisted that the political situation had nothing to do with her tennis.

But she didn't have long to ponder the situation as she lost in a straightforward 6-3, 6-1 to Olympic champion Dementieva, ranked fourth in the world.

Auckland, Nov. 4 : Religious leaders are calling for the banning on an Internet game that invites players to kill Muslims

The Australian Muslim community has accused the Federal Government and police of double standards over their treatment of a free online game in which the aim is to kill as many Muslims as possible.

Keysar Trad, president of the Islamic Friendship Association, wrote to the Attorney General, Robert McClelland, expressing outrage over the game, Muslim Massacre, saying it teaches young people to "further hate Muslims".

Auckland, Aug.16: An Auckland adrenaline junkie has cracked the world bungy jumping record for most jumps in 24 hours, making 103 jumps in 10 hours.

Wellington - New Zealand's biggest city, Auckland, was warned Friday to prepare for what meteorologists said could be one of the worst subtropical storms to hit the country in a decade.

"This is no ordinary storm," a Meteorological Service spokesman said. "It's one of the largest and deepest lows we've seen for some years.

"By the time this system reaches northern New Zealand on Saturday, it is likely to have significant destructive potential. It is going to deepen rapidly and has the potential of bringing damaging winds, flooding rains, big seas and strong rip tides."

The latest study has shown that birds are not that easy to fool.

A research, which was carried out by Auckland University researchers in the collaboration with The University of Birmingham in Britain and Palacky University in Czech Republic has shown that some species of birds have the ability to identify their own eggs from the eggs of the ‘rouge’ birds.

‘Rouge’ birds are basically those birds, which lay their eggs in other bird’s nests and fool them into hatching their eggs. It includes the name of world famous cuckoo, which is quite notorious at such kind of tasks.

A new study published online in the edition of the journal Biology Letters, reveals the quality of the avians of being competent enough to catch the shrewdness of birds like cuckoo, who try to fool