The Western Stormers turned in a powerful performance to defeat the Wellington Hurricanes 37-13 in a Super 14 southern hemisphere championship match at Newlands on Saturday. The Stormers climbed into second place on the log, behind fellow South African side the Bulls, as for the second week in succession they gained a bonus point win against New Zealand opposition. Aggressive ...

The Japan Coast Guard inspected a Japanese whaling ship Saturday with a New Zealand anti-whaling activist who is under arrest for trespassing on the vessel in the Antarctic Ocean last month. Peter Bethune, a member of the militant Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, boarded the Shonan Maru II mid-morning with coastguard officials at Yokohama port, south of Tokyo, according to television ...

New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune, who is under arrest in Japan for trespass, is reported to be well and in good spirits, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said Saturday. Bethune, who has been in custody since he boarded a Japanese harpoon ship in Antarctic waters last month, was arrested when the vessel docked in Tokyo on Friday. He was visited ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand man is recovering from injuries after being run over by his wife -- twice, local media reported on Friday. Sandy Telford ran over her husband, Terry, as she backed down the driveway of their rural property in the Hawke's Bay region, 350 kilometers (220 miles) north-east of Wellington, the Dominion Post newspaper reported. Not realizing ...