Laser Portraits

You begged your mom to pay the extra $4. A tribute to the greatest school photo backdrop there ever was.

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Injured by Bible

Manurewa MP George Hawkins has been left nursing a bruised hand after a 5kg bible was hurled at him during a church-run election meeting on Sunday night.

Mr Hawkins today said he intended making a formal complaint to police today over the incident at the Manurewa Baptist Church.

He said the incident happened after candidates had spoken and a microphone was opened for questions from the floor.

He said the man in his 60s started moving towards the microphone carrying a large bible.

“He didn’t stop at the microphone, he kept on coming… He put it above his head and slammed it down on us.”

Mr Hawkins said he blocked the fall of the 1860s edition bible, which he estimated weighed about 5kg, leaving him with a bruised hand.

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The Atlas of the Real World

The Atlas of the Real World uses software to depict the nations of the world, not by their physical size, but by their demographic importance on a range of subjects. Here, we select a series of travel- and news-related maps.

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For instance, Tourist Destinations:

The size of each country indicates the proportion of international tourist trips made there.

Western Europe receives 46 per cent of world tourist trips, while just 0.1 per cent of trips are made to Central Africa.

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