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Your pets may need a coronavirus vaccine of their own, experts suggest. Dogs may be man’s best friend but unfortunately, they’re still able to transmit coronavirus to their owners. A group of scientists have...
The travel arrangements have been suspended for an initial 72-hour period. Australia has stopped its travel arrangements with New Zealand for a three-day period after a case of a new Covid-19 variant had been discovered...
The show will go on! Some good news is here! It’s been confirmed that the Eurovision Song Contest will take place as planned on May 22 this year. Eurovision is one of those guilty pleasures that you embrace with o...
It appears as though the Pfizer vaccine will fight both COVID-19 mutations effectively. In the past few weeks, two new mutations of COVID-19 have been identified. One is said to have originated in the UK and the other i...
Enjoy the winter solstice from the comfort of your own home this year. In true 2020 style, the winter solstice will be live-streamed from Stonehenge next week. The epic event usually brings thousands of people to the an...
The ‘Christmas Star’ is also known as the Gas Giant’s ‘Great Conjunction’. If you’re a bit of a stargazer, you will have noted that Jupiter and Saturn are slowly but surely getting closer to each other...
Huge news! We’ve been clinging to some hope all year that the Trans-Tasman travel bubble would open this year. A heavy string of rumours suggested that borders between Australia and New Zealand were to open once C...
It’s welcome news for chocoholics everywhere! A new study has found that drinking hot chocolate could temporarily boost a person’s intelligence. Researchers at The University of Birmingham in the UK have con...
This is so lovely! Dick And Jillian Jardine have handed a stunning 900 hectares plot of land by Lake Wakatipu to the national trust, so all New Zealanders can enjoy its beauty. [Featured Image: Sulthan Auliya, Unsplash]...
Rightly so! Fiordland National Park has been named in the top 20 most beautiful places in the world. [Featured Image: Colin Watts, Unsplash]. Describing it as “New Zealand’s crown jewel”,…...