The Dalai Lama has canceled a trip to Mexico and the Dominican Republic and plans to remain at his headquarters in India to recover from exhaustion.
The Dalai Lama travels widely and last week was in France, where he dedicated a Buddhist temple and had a meeting with Carla Sarkozy, wife of the French president.
“His Holiness [...]
News confirms that the couple are on their way back to Los Angeles after spending a romantic weekend in Mexico. Their private jet is expected to touch down at Van Nuys Airport sometime tonight.
The Friends With Money star and the Heavier Things artist landed south of the border on Friday and then shuttled over to [...]
At 90kg and 1.83m tall, the 30-year-old immigration officer doesnt look like the type of guy who could drop someone with a lightning kick to the head.
And hes hoping giants such as 2m-tall world champion Daba Modibo Keita, of Mali, and French beast Pascal Gentil share that sentiment.
I know exactly where I am in my [...]
In fact the Wellingtonian believes it could be one of his biggest weapons when he competes at the Beijing Olympics.
At 90kg and 1.83m tall, the 30-year-old immigration officer doesnt look like the type of guy who could drop someone with a lightning kick to the head.
And hes hoping giants such as 2m-tall world champion Daba [...]
The 27-year-old Takapuna man hiked the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada last year, and this time will start at the southern tip of Japan and finish at its northern cape.
His route will take him through mixed terrain and over mountain peaks, including the Japanese Alps.
Mr Stanton says he didn%26rsquo;t want to sit at [...]
The New Zealand Vintage Bentley Tour has been organised by Arrowtown residents Adrian and Jennifer Cook for 61 owners of Bentleys built between 1924 and 1936.
The cars were made by Bentley Motors Limited, a British manufacturer of luxury automobiles and grand tourers. The company was founded in England in 1919.
The tour for the open-top WO [...]
Rob Woodburn reports on Virgin’s plans to send tourists
into space from the Arctic.
Virgin Galactic has yet to lift off from Earth but Richard
Branson has already come up with the ultimate space-tourism
psychedelic add-on. The British entrepreneur intends launching
flights from Lapland in Arctic Sweden, blasting tourists into
sub-orbital space though the dazzling celestial lights of the
Aurora Borealis, the [...]
The 68-year-old woman sought advice from Dr Nitschke, also known as Dr Death, before a 2005 trip to Mexico on which she bought the class C drug phenobarbitone (nembutal).
She took her own life 11 months after her return home.
In an editorial yesterday the Sunday Star-Times said Dr Nitschke had facilitated the womans death, and that [...]
The 68-year-old woman sought advice from Dr Nitschke, also known as Dr Death, before a 2005 trip to Mexico on which she bought the class C drug phenobarbitone (nembutal).
She took her own life 11 months after her return home.
In an editorial yesterday the Sunday Star-Times said Dr Nitschke had facilitated the womans death, and that [...]
Details of the Wellington womans death believed to be the first such death of a physically fit person in New Zealand have surfaced as Nitschke, head of pressure group Exit International, arrived in New Zealand to hold suicide seminars in Auckland, Wellington, Nelson and Christchurch.
The revelations have prompted harsh criticism of Nitschke, who encourages euthanasia [...]
