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New South Wales cricket team

New South Wales cricket team (NSW Blues): Australia's most successful domestic side, 47 Sheffield Shield and 13 One-Day Cup titles, 21 WNCL titles; competes at the SCG and Cricket Central under coach Brad Haddin.

New South Wales Endeavour railcar

The Endeavour railcars are two-car diesel multiple units operated by NSW TrainLink in New South Wales, Australia, running on the Southern Highlands, South Coast, Hunter, and Bathurst lines since 1994.

New South Wales Government Railways passenger carriages

New South Wales Government Railways passenger carriages include the first all-steel S type fleet, built by Clyde Engineering from 1937 to 1939, and post-war RUB cars.

New South Wales Police Force

New South Wales Police Force, NSW Police Force, is the police service of NSW, Australia, formed 1 March 1862 from colonial forces and tracing to the 1789 Night Watch; governed by the Police Act 1990, headquartered at Parramatta.

New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards

The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, now the NSW Literary Awards, are annual Australian literary prizes presented by the NSW Government, first awarded in 1979.

New South Wales Waratahs

New South Wales Waratahs: professional Sydney-based rugby union team in Super Rugby Pacific, winners of the 2014 Super Rugby title and 2025 Super Rugby AUS, controlled by Rugby Australia since November 2023.

New Space Race

The New Space Race, also called the Second Space Race, is the renewed spaceflight competition since the 2010s, centered on US–China rivalry and commercial reusable rockets.

New Spain

New Spain (Nueva España) was the Spanish viceroyalty centered on Mexico, whose silver mines made it the richest Spanish colony, supplying about 80 percent of world silver production.

New Spring

New Spring is a 2004 prequel novel by Robert Jordan to his Wheel of Time fantasy series, telling how Moiraine Damodred and Lan Mandragoran met and began the search for the Dragon Reborn.

New Stadium at RFK Campus

New Stadium at RFK Campus: proposed 65,000-seat roofed Washington Commanders NFL stadium in Washington, D.C., on the former RFK Stadium site, part of a $3.7 billion redevelopment after the 2025 federal land transfer, targeted to open in 2030.

New START

New START, or New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, is a 2010 US-Russian nuclear arms treaty capping deployed strategic warheads at 1,550 with on-site inspections; it expired in February 2026.

New states of Germany

The five new states of Germany (neue Länder): Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Saxony, reestablished by the 1990 Ländereinführungsgesetz and acceded to the Federal Republic on 3 October 1990.

New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British left-leaning political and cultural weekly magazine founded in London on 12 April 1913 by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, owned by Mike Danson, with circulation above 30,000.

New Sudan (territory)

New Sudan was the SPLM/A's envisioned united, secular Sudanese state and the de facto rebel-administered territory under John Garang, organized from 1994 as the Civil Authority of New Sudan across five regions, ending with the 2005 CPA and South Sudan's 2011 secession.

New Super Lucky's Tale

New Super Lucky's Tale, also called New Super Lucky's Tale (Switch), is Playful Studios' 2019 reworked 3D platformer with a free camera, Book of Ages pages, Jinx and Kitty Litter villains; Metacritic 76.

New Super Mario Bros.

New Super Mario Bros. (New スーパーマリオブラザーズ) is Nintendo's 2006 Nintendo DS 2D platformer, Mario's first side-scroller since Super Mario World, with Mega/Mini Mushrooms and Blue Shell, and the DS's best-selling game.

New Super Mario Bros. 2 (ニュースーパーマリオブラザーズ2)

New Super Mario Bros. 2 (ニュースーパーマリオブラザーズ2) is Nintendo's 2012 Nintendo 3DS side-scrolling platformer, the first traditional 2D Mario made for the 3DS, built around a series-first one million coin goal with the Gold Flower, Gold Block, Gold Ring, and Coin Rush DLC packs.

New Super Mario Bros. U

New Super Mario Bros. U (New スーパーマリオブラザーズ U) is Nintendo's 2012 Wii U launch 2D platformer with five-player Boost Mode via the GamePad; ported to Switch in 2019 as New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe with New Super Luigi U, Metascore 84.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

New Super Mario Bros. Wii (New スーパーマリオブラザーズ Wii) is Nintendo's 2009 four-player 2D Mario platformer for the Wii, first since Super Mario World on consoles, with Super Guide and Penguin Suit.

New Swabia

New Swabia (Neuschwabenland) is an area of Queen Maud Land in Antarctica, surveyed and named by Nazi Germany during the German Antarctic Expedition of 1938–39, which advanced no lasting territorial claim.

New Sweden

New Sweden (Nya Sverige), Swedish colony 1638–1655 on the Delaware River in present Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; founded by Peter Minuit at Fort Christina, taken by the Dutch in 1655 and the English in 1664.

New Taipei City

New Taipei City (新北市), also known as Xinbei City, is a special municipality in northern Taiwan that surrounds Taipei City; it was formed from Taipei County in 2010.

New Taiwan dollar (新台币)

The New Taiwan dollar (新台币), also known as the NT dollar, is the currency used in Taiwan, issued by the Central Bank and introduced in 1949 after hyperinflation.

New Tale of Zatoichi (新・座頭市物語)

New Tale of Zatoichi (新・座頭市物語, Shin Zatoichi monogatari) is the 1963 third Zatoichi film and the first in color, directed by Tokuzo Tanaka, starring Shintaro Katsu, with Zatoichi's sword teacher Banno as his final adversary.

New Tales of the Taira Clan

New Tales of the Taira Clan (新・平家物語, Shin Heike Monogatari; also Taira Clan Saga) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1955 Daiei Kyoto color film, first of a trilogy adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa's novel, with Raizo Ichikawa as young Taira no Kiyomori.

New Tashkent Stadium

New Tashkent Stadium (Yangi Toshkent Arena) is a 55,000-seat, $100 million football stadium under construction in New Tashkent, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, since November 2025, built to host the 2027 FIFA U-20 World Cup semifinals and final.

New Tbilisi Zoo

New Tbilisi Zoo (თბილისის ახალი ზოოპარკი) is a 48-hectare zoo near Tbilisi Sea, Georgia, begun after the 2015 flood; its Caucasian Fauna section opened in trial mode on 9 August 2026.

New Technology Train

New Technology Train, also known as New Millennium Train, is New York City Transit's designation for its modern computer-based subway cars, first deployed in 2000 with the R142.

New Territories (新界)

New Territories (新界): largest region of Hong Kong, leased to Britain for 99 years in 1898 and returned in 1997; now the site of the 30,000-hectare Northern Metropolis development.

New Testament (Καινή Διαθήκη)

The New Testament (Καινή Διαθήκη), also called the Christian Greek Scriptures, is a collection of 27 Greek books whose canon was first listed by Athanasius in 367.