As expected the Blackcaps have whitewashed Zimbabwe at the ODI series with a crushing 202-run win in Napier tonight.

Here is a comical moment in the NBA today as Hollywood actor Will Ferrell somehow got the job of introducing the Chicago Bulls and New Orleans Hornets starting line-ups.

The All Blacks' supreme award has capped off a big night for rugby at the annual Halberg Awards in Auckland.

Britain's defence ministry says Prince Harry has qualified as an Apache attack helicopter pilot, graduating as the best co-pilot gunner in his class after 18 months of training.

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge - formerly known as Kate Middleton - attended the royal preview of a retrospective of the work of artist Lucian Freud at Britain's National Portrait Gallery on Wednesday night.

It has been the talk of the nation since last night; Sonny Bill Williams capturing the New Zealand heavyweight boxing title.

A five-year-old child has died at Motueka High School after being crushed by fallen trees.

The woman claims she was tackled to the ground in Hamilton, suffering a gash to her face and a dislocated elbow.

Most of us thought the sale of the Crafar farms to Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin was a done deal but the settlement date for the purchase keeps being delayed.

Industry players say that fracking has revolutionised the once-dwindling US gas industry, opening up previously inaccessible or uneconomic areas.

They took a car, some art and a healthy collection of television sets.

Ricki Herbert has named a strong All Whites squad to play Jamaica at Mt Smart stadium on February 29th.

BlackCaps captain Brendan McCullum has smashed 119 as the BlackCaps posted 373 for 8 against Zimbabwe in the final one-dayer.

Like Sonny Bill Williams, referee Lance Revill barely worked up a sweat in the ring as he stopped last nightas fight in the first round.

The New Zealand Davis Cup tennis team begin their group 1 tie against Uzbekistan in Tauranga tomorrow.

England football manager Fabio Capello has resigned in protest at the decision by the FA to strip John Terry of the captaincy..

The Dunedin City Council is considering a permanent liquor ban in the student suburbs, in a bid to end drunken street parties.

A $4 million lifestyle block belonging to alleged internet pirate Kim Dotcom has been seized by the Crown.

Mercury Energy customers have been told their power bills are going up by nearly six percent.

RadioLive is facing a maximum $100,000 fine after giving Prime Minister John Key a cameo in its drive-time slot in the lead-up to the election.

Two of the key figures in the Christchurch rebuild look as though they are trying hard to patch up their differences.

An investigation into its collapse during last Februaryas quake has found it did not meet the building standards in force at the time it was constructed - in 1986.

Official unemployment is down but even the neutral experts say job growth is slow and many of the jobs are part-time.

Police have retreated from an idea to permanently reduce the tolerance for speeding to four kilometres an hour.

Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May.

The Coatesville mansion of internet piracy-accused Kim Dotcom has this morning been seized by police.

RadioLive could be fined up to $100,000 after the Electoral Commission decided the PM's show broke the law.

The All Blacks are expected to dominate tonight's Halberg Awards.

Resurgent Rick Santorum said his sweep of three GOP contests earned his shoestring campaign US$250,000 overnight, cash he needs to take his upstart bid for the Republican presidential nomination to Mitt Romney's turf.

A Tokyo zoo staged an emergency drill on how to respond if rhinoceros were to escape from their enclosures.

Fabio Capello has quit as Englandas football coach, just months before the European Championship.

A report on the CTV building, which collapsed in the February 22 earthquake, will be released today.

Homs has become the focus of the worst violence of the 11-month-old uprising, which appears to be morphing into a civil war with fearsome sectarian overtones.

After a journey stretching over millions of kilometres, scientists at the Natural History Museum can at last get their hands on a little piece of Mars.

Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee says he has apologised after calling Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker a aclowna.

In this week's TelstraClear technology wrap, Emma Brannam takes a look at the latest developments in aerial robotics, shows off a self-guided bullet and more.

The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, according to a senior EU official, as Russia tried to broker talks between the vice president and the opposition to calm violence. Activists reported at least 50 killed in the regime's siege of the restive city of Homs.

Rupert Murdoch's News International has settled nearly all the cases against the company in the first wave of lawsuits for phone hacking by its journalists, with a new round of apologies and payouts announced in a London court.

The Prime Minister says a minimum wage of $15 an hour isn't a viable option in New Zealand, but 3 News political editor Duncan Garner disagrees.

The hour-long radio show Prime Minister John Key hosted prior to the election has been referred to the police for breaching the Broadcasting Act.

The United States appears to be out of answers on what to do with Syria.

Sonny Bill Williams is already contemplating his next bout after claiming the New Zealand Professional Boxing Association heavyweight title.

A panel of experts has reached its conclusion on what they believe led to the deadly explosion in the Pike River mine.

A 64-year-old Melbourne man has survived a paragliding accident which left him precariously perched in the top of a gum tree for six hours.

Their boxing bout had barely begun before Sonny Bill Williams knocked out American Clarence Tillman III.

Kim Dotcom is accused of internet piracy causing amore than half a billion dollars in harm to copyright ownersa, according to the FBI.

Ben Campbell-MacDonald dived into the chilly waters of Lake Wakatipu on Saturday and began swimming from Kingston Beach.

If you are still breastfeeding at six months then according to the health ministry you are a success. Kate Rhodes is not.

He is now officially a Tour de France drug cheat, but Alberto Contador has vowed to fight the two-year ban handed down by sports highest court.

2011 was a memorable season for the Warriors, and this year they are keen for another shot at the Grand Final.

3 News can reveal New Zealand defence force personnel who travel to Fiji on holiday, are being told not to divulge who they work for.

A group of Rotorua homeowners are left wondering who to turn to after their houses began sinking.

The supermarket chain that declared a milk war, says it is inflicting heavy casualties on its rivals.

With big changes to their playing roster the Canterbury Tactix are aiming for major improvements in the trans-Tasman netball championships starting in April.

A panel of experts believes they know what caused the explosion in the Pike River coal mine 15 months ago.

Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman has described a navy accident in which one of its craft struck rocks as an aembarrassmenta.

A federal appeals court has declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for a likely appeal to the US Supreme Court.

Russian scientists are reported to have reached a lake that has been hidden from the world for 14 million years.

Argentina's president Cristina Fernandez says they will formally complain to the UN Security Council that Britain has created a serious security risk by sending one of its most modern warships to the disputed Falkland Islands.

Warriors centre Jerome Ropati says he is aitchinga to get back on the field after a long off-season following a knee injury.