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Scandals tarnish New Zealand’s ‘squeaky clean’ reputation

The unraveling corruption cases in New Zealand sports, business and politics have sullied the country’s record as “world’s least corrupt nation for eight years straight by the watchdog group Transparency International.”

Dead deer used in Philadelphia car insurance scam

Forty-one people in Philadelphia are facing charges in what prosecutors call an elaborate insurance fraud scheme that used dead deer to fake car accidents.

30 percent of world population overweight

Almost a third of the world is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis.

No end yet to salmonella outbreak tied to chicken

An outbreak of antibiotic-resistant salmonella linked to a California chicken company hasn’t run its course after more than a year, with 50 new illnesses in the past two months and 574 people sickened since March 2013.