{"id":418143,"date":"2026-05-08T15:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418143\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:39:10","slug":"news-in-90-seconds-may-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418143\/","title":{"rendered":"News in 90 Seconds May 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including news about a New Zealander on the virus-stricken cruise ship, and Sir David Attenborough speaks about his 100th birthday.   <\/p>\n<p>A New Zealander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/05\/08\/kiwi-among-dozens-who-left-ship-before-hantavirus-confirmed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">disembarked a virus stricken cruise ship<\/a>, days before the outbreak was confirmed. <\/p>\n<p>A man&#8217;s been arrested after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/05\/08\/man-arrested-after-reports-former-prince-andrew-was-threatened\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an alleged threat<\/a> to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. <\/p>\n<p>Metservice is warning people to stay alert amid forecast bad weather. <\/p>\n<p>Sir David Attenborough has released an audio message to mark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/05\/08\/i-will-not-see-how-planets-story-ends-sir-david-attenborough-turns-100\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">his 100th birthday<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including news about a New Zealander on the virus-stricken cruise ship, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2487,21666,18558,111,43,139,69,65159,21675,274],"class_list":["post-418143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-european-union","tag-holding","tag-identity","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-passport","tag-selective-focus","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}