New Zealand sport technology company VX Sport is in the running to win the new products competition at the prestigious ISPO sporting equipment fair in Munich with their GPS-enabled sports performance measurement system.

Wellington, Nov 18 NZPA - The number of New Zealanders diagnosed with diabetes now exceeds 200,000 for the first time, the Ministry of Health says.

A documentary which highlights the "distress, cruelty, horror, ecocide, cover-ups and contamination" involved in 1080-based pest control has won the Bent Spoon brickbat from the NZ Skeptics for 2009.