Articles

Man Survives 15-Story Fall from New Zealand Tower
A Brit on vacation in Auckland learned the perils of urban rappelling when he attempted to scale a balcony to get into his locked apartment.
Seatbelts Could Have Prevented 3 Boston U Deaths
(ROTORUA, New Zealand) Three Boston University students who were killed last year in New Zealand when their minivan rolled might have survived if they were...

U.K. Call Firm Flies Staff To New Zealand To Cover Overnight Shift
Keeping the employees happy might be just as important as keeping the customer happy.

New Zealand Updates Banned Baby Names List
New Zealand residents can't name their children after punctuation marks, or call them V8, Anal, or 4Real.

WATCH: New Zealand Parliament Passes Gay Marriage Bill, Breaks into Song
Onlookers and lawmakers celebrated the result by breaking into the Maori love song “Pokarekare Ana.”
Photo Essays

Bungee Jumping in New Zealand
AJ Hackett Bungy New Zealand opened the first commercial bungee jumping in Queenstown; the company now offers high dives at several locations in their home...

Oil Spill Reaches New Zealand Beaches
A Liberian cargo ship's oil leak begins to take its toll on New Zealand's wildlife
Time.com Specials

Gollum’s Getup: How The Hobbit‘s Groundbreaking Technology Works
At a pivotal point in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, our hero encounters Gollum, the haggard creature moviegoers will recognize from the director’s The Lord of the...

Adventure Travel: New Zealand's Bungee-Jumping Pioneers on the Thrill of Falling
Just getting to the jump site in the rugged South Island of New Zealand is an adventure -- and then you get to fling yourself off a bridge hundreds of feet off...


