Waitangi Day was about celebrating being Māori in Rotorua.

MetService says this week should be cooler than the sweltering and humid heat of late.

Well over 5000 people were at a big day out at the the regional sports park in Hastings.

A massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake has hit south-east Turkey, collapsing buildings and killing at least 10.

Beyoncé stands alone on her Grammy throne: With her fourth win Sunday night, she has become the most decorated artist in the show's history surpassing the 26-year-old record once held by the late Hungarian-British conductor Georg Solti.

The superstar singer has now collected 32 awards after she won for best R&B song for "Cuff It," dance-electric music recording for "Break My Soul," traditional R&B performance for "Plastic Off the Sofa" and dance-electric music for her seventh studio album "Renaissance," which is also nominated for album of the year.

Beyoncé missed the milestone of her tying Solti's record, which stood since 1997. Host Trevor Noah said she was on her way to the ceremony but blamed Los Angeles traffic for not being in person to accept it.

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The song was written by several writers including Beyonce, The-Dream, Nile Rodgers and Raphael Saadiq.

Once Beyonce finally arrived, Noah presented her with the best R&B song award at her table which included her husband Jay-Z and The-Dream. In that category, she extended her record as the artist with most wins in the category with five wins.

Bad Bunny opened the Grammy Awards with a festive, high-energy performance that brought many of the audience including Taylor Swift who rose to her feet and danced near her table at Los Angeles' Crypto.com Arena.

Noah introduced Bunny calling him a "global force" who is the most streamed and listened to artist in the world.

By the time the show started, Beyoncé had already won two Grammys.

Beyoncé entered Sunday's ceremony as the leading nominee including album, song and record of the year. If she wins in any of those major categories, it'll be her first since since she received the song of the year honor for "Single Ladies" in 2010.

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Styles won the main telecast's first award for best pop vocal album for "Harry's House." The singer said recording the song was one of the "greatest experiences of my life. It's been my greatest joy."

Sam Smith and Kim Petras won best pop duo-group performance for their song "Unholy." Petras said Smith wanted Petras to make the acceptance speech because "I'm the first transgender woman to win this award."

"I want to thank all the incredible transgender legends before me who kicked these doors open for me so I could be here tonight," said Petras, who made a reference to friend and Grammy-nominated musician Sophie, who died after an accidental fall in Athens, Greece in 2021.

"You told me this would happen. I always believed in me. Thank you so much for your inspiration, Sophie. I adore you, and your inspiration will forever be in my music."

Petras thanked Madonna for being a tremendous supporter of LGBTQ rights.

"I don't think I could be here without Madonna," Petras said. "My mother, I grew up next to a highway in nowhere Germany. And my mother believed me that I was a girl. I wouldn't be here without her and her support."

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During the in memoriam segment, the Grammys recognized the lives of Loretta Lynn, Migos rapper Takeoff and Christine McVie with several star-studded performers paying them homage.

The touching performances included Kacey Musgraves singing "Coal Miner's Daughter" in tribute to Lynn; Quavo and the Maverick City Music hit the stage to honor his nephew Takeoff with the song "Without You;" and Sheryl Crow, Mick Fleetwood and Bonnie Raitt performed "Songbird" to remember McVie.

Kendrick Lamar won sixth career trophy for best rap performance for "The Heart Part 5" and also won best rap album for his studio offering, "Mr. Morales & The Big Steppers."

"You know, as entertainers, we say things to provoke thoughts and feelings and emotions," he said.

"So making this record is one of my toughest. … I would like to thank the culture for allowing me to evolve in order to make this. I finally found imperfection with this album."

Viola Davis emerged from Sunday's show an EGOT — a term for those who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony — after her win for best audio book, narration and storytelling recording. The actor gave an emotional speech and emphatically said "I just EGOT" after she marched on stage to collect her award.

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"Oh, my God," she said. "I wrote this book to honor the 6-year-old Viola, to honor her, her life, her joy, her trauma, everything," Davis said. "It has just been such a journey."

Tattered streetwear, T-shirts and denim mixed with blinged-out couture, wild patterns and plenty of skin on the Grammys carpet.

Lizzo wowed in a bright orange Dolce & Gabbana robe adorned with flowers and a huge hood while Taylor Swift wore a long two-piece sparkly skirt with a high-neck and long-sleeve crop top in midnight blue.

Brandi Carlile made a rare appearance during the pre-telecast for a major artist.

The singer showed up after her song "Broke Horses" won for best rock performance and best rock song, a songwriter's award, and best Americana album.

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"It's rock 'n' roll, man," said a smiling Carlile, who jogged on stage with a couple of her band members. "I cannot tell you how much this means to us. We're born and raised in Seattle. When I met these guys 22 years ago we decided to get into a band."

Carlile co-wrote "Broken Horses" with twin brothers Phil and Tim Hanseroth.

There could be many other firsts during the ceremony: If Bad Bunny wins album of the year for "Un Verano Sin Ti," it would be the first time a Spanish-language album has taken home the top honor.

Taylor Swift, whose latest album "Midnights" wasn't eligible for this year's Grammys, could win her first song of the year trophy for "All Too Well." An Adele win for song of the year for her track "Easy on Me" would make her the most decorated artist in the category with three wins, the others coming for her megahits "Hello" and "Rolling in the Deep."

This year's Grammys have also introduced several new categories, including one for video game music composition, which went to the soundtrack for "Assassins Creed: Valhalla."

This year's show marks a return to Los Angeles after the pandemic first delayed, then forced the Grammys to move to Las Vegas last year. Noah hosted the ceremony as well, which saw Jon Batiste take home album of the year.

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Doorbell footage of missing UK woman Nicola Bulley loading up her car on the morning of her disappearance has been shared by friends and family.

The images shared to the BBC show the 45-year-old outside her home before she dropped off her young daughters off at school and taking her springer spaniel for their usual walk by the river.

Mortgage broker Bulley greeted fellow dog walkers as she took a route along the River Wyre in Lancashire, northern England, police believe.

During the walk, she dialled into a work conference call, keeping her camera off and microphone muted.

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By 9.30am, the Teams call had ended – but Bulley remained logged on.

A short while later, her dog Willow was found wandering alone.

Her phone was recovered on a riverside bench.

But Bulley had vanished.

The 45-year-old went missing in the village of St. Michael's on Wyre on Friday, January 27.

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She has not been seen or heard from since then.

Stephanie Benyon, a friend of Bulley's whose children attend the same school, told CNN that she is a "kind, loyal and thoughtful person who adores her two girls and family and friends."

A search party launched by Lancashire Police involving specialist resources is now into its eighth day.

Officers say they do not believe her disappearance is suspicious and people "should not speculate or spread false rumors."

This has done little to assuage public concern, however, with some local women fearful of going out in the village where Bulley disappeared, British tabloid Daily Mirror reported.

It also comes at a time of heightened mistrust of police, after former London Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick recently admitting to a litany of sexual attacks on women, sparking calls for an inquiry into the UK's largest police service.

Retracing final steps

Others out walking their dogs that morning were the last people to see Bulley before she vanished – and it seems there was nothing unusual about her manner.

According to Lancashire Police Superintendent Sally Riley, Bulley was familiar with the area and would often do the same walk.

A friend of Bulley's told the Mirror that she had since spoken to two dog walkers who had seen Bulley that day, saying that she had been "laughing and joking" with them as she passed by.

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She was sighted by one dog walker in a field with Willow at around 8.50 a.m., police said. Willow was not on the lead.

At 8.53am, Bulley sent an email to her boss.

She logged into the Teams work call at 9.01am.

"All of this was normal behavior for Nicola," Superintendent Wiley told a press briefing on Friday afternoon.

Her last confirmed sighting was at 9.10am, when another dog walker known to Bulley saw her walking with Willow on Upper Field.

Police believe her phone was on the bench near the riverbank at 9.20am after tracing telephone records.

The work call ended 10 minutes later, at 9.30am.

A passerby discovered the phone at around 9.35am.

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It was still connected to the conference call.

Her brown spaniel was found running loose between the gate to the field and the bench. Lancashire Police confirmed to CNN that the dog was dry and did not appear to have entered the water.

Bulley's partner of 12 years, Paul Ansell, rushed to the scene after receiving a call from his daughters' school that the family dog had been found, Bulley's friend told The Mirror.

He quickly phoned the police.

During Friday's press briefing, Superintendent Riley said officers were "particularly interested" in the time between the phone being placed on the bench at 9.20am and the device being recovered 10 minutes later.

"We only have a 10-minute window in which we cannot account for Nicola's movements," she said.

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Desperate search

Using underwater drones, divers have been scouring the full length of the River Wyre downstream.

On the ground, the search for Bulley continues, with officers using specially trained police dogs.

Amid growing speculation and local safety concerns, Superintendent Riley told the press conference that their "main working hypothesis" was that Bulley had fallen into the river.

"The inquiry team has undertaken a number of dashcam, CCTV and ring doorbell footage. This has allowed us to eliminate any trace so far of Nicola having left the riverside, which is really important.

"We believe that Nicola was in the riverside area and remained at the riverside area.

"We remain open to any inquiries that might lead us to question that, but at this time we understand that she was by the river."

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Bulley's family were left unsatisfied with the police's theory, however. In a post on Facebook, her sister Louise Cunningham insisted the case was "far from over."

"Off the back of the latest Police media update, please can I add there is no evidence whatsoever that she has gone into the river, it's just a theory.

"Everyone needs to keep an open mind as not all CCTV and leads have been investigated fully, the police confirmed the case is far from over."

Meanwhile, worried locals keen to aid in the search operation have been participating in organized walks.

Benyon told CNN how the local community had come together to help find her.

"We have arranged walks around the river from St Michaels up to Knott End for the community to follow.

Today [Friday] we have been stood on the main road appealing for witnesses with banners and placards.

"We are desperately trying to find Nikki to bring her home to her family and friends who all love her very much."

Superintendent Riley acknowledged there has been a high level of concern in the local community.

"However, parts of the riverbank are treacherous, and we would ask that nobody puts themselves in danger and that the police and partner agencies' efforts to find Nicola are not compromised," she said.

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Gaining worldwide attention 

Bulley's disappearance has drawn a lot of attention from people across the world and social media.

One Facebook group, made by a group of strangers eager to help find Bulley has more than two thousand members.

Sarah, one of the group moderators was forced to make a post yesterday, calling for peace and support after receiving negative comments.

"I've removed many comments tonight that were uncalled for! Please only comment if it's a nice discussion with each other," she said.

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It comes as Bulley's friend Heather Gibbons told BBC North West Tonight that many theories circulating online were "hurtful" and "vile" to the family.

"I mean it's human nature – everyone's going to have their thoughts, their theories, everyone will be speculating," she said.

"But to see some of the vile speculation online – some of the theories that are incredibly, incredibly hurtful.

"I don't think people are realising that the family are sitting at home and are able to access and see all of that."

Gibbons said that some of the speculation was "incredibly hurtful".

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'People don't just vanish into thin air'

Bulley's family have urged anyone who may have information to come forward.

"Something has got to have been missed. Somebody most know something. People don't just vanish into thin air," her sister Louise Cunningham said in a recent interview with Sky News.

"There has got to be somebody who knows something and all we are asking is, no matter how small or big, if there is anything you remember that doesn't seen right, then please reach out to the police."

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A statement released by Bulley's family said her two daughters, aged six and nine, are "desperate" to have their mother back safely.

Bulley's partner, Ansell, described the situation as a "perpetual hell."

"We are living through this but it doesn't feel real. All we can say is we need to find her. She's got two little girls that need their mummy home," he said, according to PA Media.

"We're never, ever going to lose hope, of course we're not, but it is as though she has vanished into thin air. It's just insane," the UK news agency quoted him as saying.

In the second part of this series, after examining if ChatGPT could pass HSC English, we look at how hard it will be for schools and universities to catch cheaters. 

Exclusive: Australian schools and universities will be armed with new tech to catch students trying to cheat with ChatGPT, the advanced artificial intelligence chatbot which can write essays on command.

Since its release in late November, ChatGPT has developed a reputation as a freewheeling cheating machine and raised the stakes considerably.

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For years, the frontline for all Australian universities and many high schools in their war on cheating has been been a software company called Turnitin.

Using powerful algorithms that churn over a huge archive of documents, data and other information, the Turnitin platform assesses submitted work and red flags any suspicious activity. A school or university can then investigate for cases of plagiarism or cheating.

Much like large banks and corporations who recruited enemy-turned-friend hackers to work for them, cheating in the digital age has become a cat and mouse game.

First there was simple copy-paste plagiarism.

That was followed by contract cheating, where students pay money to an essay mill who would farm out the request to a ghost writer to deliver quality work.

The next frontier is AI generated writing.

"The term 'arms race' has been used before, and I think there's some truth in it," James Thorley, Turnitin's regional vice president for Asia and Pacific, told 9news.com.au.

Turnitin's best tech engineers have been working on software to tackle the AI threat for some time, Thorley said, and upgrades would be released this year.

"We've been well aware of AI-writing and the potential threats and opportunities for at least two years," he said.

As schools and universities start the new academic year, Thorley said Turnitin was "very confident with our abilities" to detect writing generated by ChatGPT or the countless other iterations of AI-bots which are are on the way.

"AI-generated text is still different enough from human-generated text in terms of some of its underlying stylistic components, and essentially, it's more predictable."

Thorley said, through machine learning, computers can be trained to "learn and understand" the differences.

The computer models, he said, will flag "with a level of confidence … that this has been written by a machine rather than a human."

There are other detection methods deployed by Turnitin which 9news.com.au has chosen not to disclose.

The bot has already accomplished several impressive feats, including passing the US Medical Licensing Exam, an MBA exam from the prestigious business school Wharton and several law school courses.

Last week 9news.com.au asked the bot to write two HSC English essays, which a high school teacher reviewed and gave a below average grade.

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However, there are ways to significantly improve the quality of ChatGPT's essay writing which 9news.com.au has chosen not to highlight.

In response to weeks of speculation over the bot's impact on education, the company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, last week released a tool to help stop academic dishonesty.

However, the tool is not foolproof.

"We don't want ChatGPT to be used for misleading purposes in schools or anywhere else," a spokesperson told 9news.com.au.

"We've always called for transparency around the use of AI-generated text."

Thorley admitted the impressive powers of ChatGPT "does shift things a little bit" in the cheating space.

The tool's free-access had also lowered the barrier for anyone considering rolling the dice, he said, but that may soon change.

It is not uncommon for tech companies to release products for free, achieve scale, and then charge a subscription.

"How long will they remain a completely free service?" Thorley asked.

"I've heard various numbers of how much it's costing them a day.

"I know how much it costs us to use AI and it's not cheap.

"So the idea that tools like GPT will be free forever, I think is not going to be the case."

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'Greater use of pen and paper assessments'

A prevailing mood among educators is that the nature of assessments needs to change, to be more authentic and relevant.

The coronavirus pandemic, which saw hundreds of thousands of students studying at home, presented new opportunities for cheating, but also started discussions about the best way to test and examine pupils.

"There's already quite a lot of momentum to rethink assessment because of the pandemic and I think (ChatGPT) will accelerate that," Thorley said.

9news.com.au contacted six prominent universities, and all said they were aware of ChatGPT and that AI was a technology that would need to be managed.

"At the moment, we've seen a few cases where AI is suspected, and the work has been of a very low standard that would not achieve a pass mark," a University of Sydney spokesperson said.

"However, we know that could change and are preparing accordingly including through student education and support, staffing support and training, redesigning our assessments, targeted technological and other detection strategies and improved methods of investigation."

The university had "revised how we'll run assessments in 2023" and this included "greater use of pen and paper assessments".

ANU said it was "concerned about recent advancements in technology assisted cheating" and that it had "robust measures in place" to catch cheaters.

The University of Adelaide said it was re-evaluating assessment design, and that could include questions focused on recent events or examples, "as AI is less useful in these areas".

"Artificial Intelligence is here to stay so our priority is to educate our students and staff to use AI appropriately," the university said.

A man wanted by US police in a bizarre incident at a house featured in The Goonies was the subject of a daring coast guard rescue when he was tossed from a stolen boat as it capsised, authorities said.

On Wednesday, police in Astoria, Oregon, received a report that a man had left a dead fish on the porch of the house used in The Goonies, police said in a news release.

The 1985 comedy adventure was based on a story by Steven Spielberg.

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CNN affiliate KGW reported that surveillance video at the house showed the man laying the fish on the porch and making a mobile phone video of it before walking away.

Police searched for two days for the man, identified as 35-year-old Jericho Labonte.

On Friday morning, the coast guard received a mayday broadcast from a man piloting a boat at the mouth of the Columbia River, the agency said in a series of tweets.

Coast Guard video showed two helicopters arriving to find the boat being tossed by waves, the coast guard said on Twitter.

"The surf made rescue by boat dangerous, so the aircrew decided to lower the rescue swimmer and have the owner enter the water for rescue," the tweet said.

Video shot from a helicopter showed the rescue swimmer approaching the boat when a wave struck the vessel and caused it to capsize.

The man was thrown into the water but the rescue swimmer reached the man and the two of them were lifted into a helicopter.

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"Talk about arriving in the nick of time!" the coast guard tweeted.

The coast guard didn't name the rescued man but posted a photo of him being carried out of the helicopter.

He was taken to a hospital in Astoria, treated and discharged.

After images of the water rescue aired, police said they received a call from the Astoria port security chief saying the vessel in the rescue had been stolen earlier in the day.

"At about the same time, we received calls from several citizens identifying the rescued victim as Labonte," the police news release said.

After a brief search and asking the public for its assistance, Labonte was arrested Friday night at a warming centre in Seaside, about 27km to the south, according to Astoria police.

The exact charges were not immediately known.

CNN is working to determine whether Labonte has an attorney.

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Police said he was wanted on charges of theft, endangering another person, unauthorised use of a vehicle and criminal mischief.

Police in Victoria, Canada, had tweeted that Labonte is wanted on warrants for criminal harassment, mischief and failing to comply.

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The biggest names in music have descended on Los Angeles to attend the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, showcasing typically eclectic fashion.

A murder investigation is underway in North Carolina after the remains of a man previously reported missing were discovered inside of a barrel.

The Lee County Sheriff's Office said in a release that the department executed a search warrant at a residence on Farrell Road in Sanford on Jan. 25, 2023, and a connecting parcel of land.

On the second day of the search, detectives located a 200-litre barrel "in a heavily wooded area that contained concrete and suspected human remains," the department said.

After being sent to the North Carolina State Medical Examiner's Office, concrete from the barrel was removed and a dismembered body was found inside.

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The Lee County Sheriff's Office identified the human remains as Michael Bradley Cox, who had been reported missing in December 2022.

Subsequently, the sheriff's office charged Jackie Lamar Bright with the murder of Cox.

Authorities say Bright had been released from prison in May of 2022 and that he was out on parole when the Lee County Sheriff's Office took him into custody for unrelated charges of possession of a stolen vehicle and controlled substance violations on January 6.

The sheriff's office said Bright was released on bail and arrested again on January 11 for the parole violation and additional controlled substance violations.

This investigation is still ongoing and additional charges are expected, the sheriff's office added.

Lee County Sheriff Brian Estes offered his condolences and prayers to the family of Michael Bradley Cox in a press release.

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