The incident took place in December last year on an Air New Zealand Auckland-Sydney flight and the 53-year-old man was fined 600 Australian dollars for urinating in a cup and later spilling it on a flight attendant, officials said on Friday.
The ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and heightened tensions in parts of the world, are affecting this year’s New Year’s Eve celebrations in a myriad of ways. Many cities were deploying extra security, and some places canceled New Year’s Eve events altogether.
If you are a migrant working in New Zealand, and think you are being exploited, contact Immigration New Zealand (INZ) for help.
Yashraj Chhabra took over the PA (public address) system at the airport to declare his love for Riiya Shukla and asked her to marry him. Chhabra, who is a banking specialist from Auckland, wanted to do something special for his partner.
Passengers spent 16 hours on an Air New Zealand flight from Auckland to New York – only to return right where they took off.
The airport in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, had to close down because of severe flooding. The Emirates pilot turned the aircraft around nearly halfway through the journey and returned to Dubai.
A property owner gets creative amid market slump.
Two years of planning went into the new non-stop service from New York to Auckland which, at 17 hours and 35 minutes, is the world’s fourth-longest.
There will be no changes in the social restrictions that have already been in place for over two months in Auckland under alert level 3, Ardern said at a news conference.
The nation has been battling an outbreak of the delta variant of the coronavirus since last month. All recent cases have been found in Auckland, including 20 that were found on Monday.
The Auckland lockdown began on August 12 after four cases were detected in the city of 1.5 million, ending 102 days free of community transmission when it appeared New Zealand had beaten the virus.
According to the 18th Mercer Quality of Life study which examined socioeconomic conditions of 230 global cities, Vienna, a city of nearly 1.8 million people, is the world's best city, followed by Zurich, Auckland, Munich and Vancouver.
After 48 one-day internationals played out over six weeks between teams from five continents, the 11th version of cricket's showpiece tournament comes down to a trans-Tasman tussle at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.