Thomas, a savvy businessman, started a cargo company, while Mary raised their 7 children. Then, in 1811 Thomas died and Mary decided to continue on her own. She bought more ships and more properties, ...

Iichi Marumo started competing in his late 80s, after a life spent farming, publishing poetry and volunteering to fly in a ...

Ashraf Mahrous set records for the heaviest rail pull using only teeth, the heaviest locomotive pull and the fastest 100-meter road vehicle pull.

Police have fined 20 protesters who performed a haka that blocked the Southern Motorway in a Destiny Church-organised protest. The protest against the flying of flags other than New Zealand’s ...

bubbling under hot 100 the week’s most popular current songs across all genres below no. 100, ranked by streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by luminate, radio airplay ...

Led by Dave Letele snr, who runs the Grace Foundation, the group performed a spine-tingling and emotional haka and sang waiata in Māori and Samoan. Matue’s whānau wailed as the hymns were sung.

There wasn't much I could draw on due to the fact I never really paid attention in school and so the hilarious result of my "cultural education class" was seeing around 25 tiny thirteen year old ...

Try these discussions to improve your speaking and listening. There are 20 questions in each activity - 10 for Student A and 10 for Student B. You can print out the worksheet. You can listen to the ...

Try these speed reading exercises to improve reading. You can also learn something about the news. There are reading texts at different levels. You can choose the reading speed of each text. If one ...