A bumbling thief struggled to remove a cash register still plugged into the wall during a robbery at an Auckland takeaway restaurant on 15 July. According to a police statement, two men armed with scissors and a knife robbed the store at about 8pm.
The Night of the Living Dead director passed away at the age of 77, after a battle with lung cancer. Romero is credited with reinventing the horror genre with his classic zombie movies, with director Eli Roth saying it is hard to quantify what he did for cinema.
Two Harrys met at the premiere of director Christopher Nolans new film Dunkirk. Set in 1944s war-torn France, it tells the story of the evacuation of 338,000 British, French, Belgian and Canadian soldiers after they were surrounded by the German army. Prince Harry met veterans of Dunkirk earlier on the day at Kensington Palace and One Direction singer Harry Styles received praise for his acting debut.