Nation selects new design to challenge current flag

New Zealanders chose a new flag design on Tuesday that will be put up as a challenger to their current flag in a March vote.

The question of whether to change a national symbol that has endured for more than a century has raised plenty of passion, and skepticism, in this nation of 4.6 million.

People submitted more than 10,000 potential new flag designs, including bizarre ones like a kiwi, the iconic native bird, shooting a green laser beam from its eye.