Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield joins the show as the country's first ever 'vaxathon' takes place  with the target of getting a further 100,000 eligible people vaccinated with either their first or second dose.

Reservation Dogs is a new dark comedy series co-created by NZ filmmaker Taika Waititi and Native American filmmaker Sterlin Harjo. The show focuses on four Native American teenagers living on a reservation in rural Oklahoma. One of them - Elora - is played by Mohawk writer and actor Devery Jacobs.

It was while working as a welder in the Glasgow shipyards that Billy Connolly discovered he had a knack for comedy. With his fearless and outspoken approach to life - which includes his wardrobe - the Scotsman carved out a remarkable 50-year career and garnered a cult following with his outrageous sense of humour.

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The lobster is a creature that likes darkness, preferring to live its days being hidden away from sight. But the enigmatic crustacean undergoes a thorough literary, historical, artistic, and scientific examination in The Lobster's Tale.

Dr Miles Benton had the idea for portable, bedside sequencing in hospitals when his son was born eight weeks premature. He knew there was technological capability to have a diagnosis within the hour for the meningitis doctors suspected his son had - rather than the 48 hours it took to get a lumbar puncture.

Doireann Ní Ghríofa's prose debut A Ghost in the Throat eludes easy definition: at once a memoir, a piece of scholarship and autobiographical-fiction. The book combines Ní Ghríofa's own story with her efforts to piece together the life of an 18th Century Irish writer Eibhlín Dugg Ní Chonaill, whose life - like many other women's lives historically - had been left untold.

Coastal shipping and green hydrogen-powered trucking are part of the future for freight in New Zealand believes Chris Dunphy, the new director of Move Logistics - formerly known as TIL Logistics - one of the country's largest freight and warehousing businesses.

A satellite tag which unexpectedly kept working for a year has followed the journey of one tohora southern right whale as he ventured 15,000km from the Auckland Islands across three oceans. Bill - as he's referred to - chalked up the longest southern right whale migration ever recorded, giving scientists the first ever glimpse into a full year in the life of a southern right whale.

Elusive venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel has been thrust under the microscope in new biography The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power.