1Child Youth and Family are helping the police investigate the death of a three-year-old boy in Otara.

2A media scrum - pushing, shoving and a torrent of abuse - played out today outside the Hamilton District Court after All Black Sione Luaki appeared in court.

3In his State of the Union address, US President Bush has told Americans they're addicted to oil and he wants to slash dependence on imports from the Middle East.

4The national grid operator Transpower is expected to fight back hard against a Commerce Commission proposal.

5Palmerston North police have conducted what they're describing as a major drugs bust in the city.

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7Today marks the anniversary of the infamous Underarm Bowling incident in a match between Australia and New Zealand. An act of Aussie cowardice was how former Prime minister Robert Muldoon described it.

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9The American civil rights campaigner, Coretta Scott King, perhaps best known as the widow of Martin Luther King, has died .

10More details have been revealed in court today about how a cardiologist managed to get hold of large quantities of drugs.

11The New Zealand film industry has again flexed its muscle on the world stage, with a number of people nominated for Academy Awards this morning.

12Waatea News: The latest in Maori news, including Hone Harawira wanted to talk about an independent Maori assembly at Waitangi.

13Australia's hot summer has had a devastating effect on the Barrier Reef.

14Fans are buzzing, hair is curling and Aucklanders are feeling a little "under the weather" as hot weather continues throughout the city.

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16President Bush has warned the United States must break its dependence on Middle East oil.

17Oscar-nominated films question sexual conventions, race relations and the politics of fear and violence.

18The Chief Censor has banned an issue of a student magazine that featured an article entitled 'Diary Of A Drug Rapist'. The article was published six months ago.

19More than 50 New Zealand police officers were sent overseas last year as the Police Association continued to complain about the "thinning blue line".

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21Coretta Scott King, the widow of the slain civil rights leader, Reverend Martin Luther King Junior died today in Atlanta.

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23Arthur Barnett Department is to close its city branch - the end of a retail era in Christchurch.

24Iran is being backed into a corner by powerful nations angry about its decision to restart its nuclear programme.

25The US President has scored a rare political victory as his latest Supreme Court nominee, Samuel Alito was sworn in.

26Police in Nelson have assisted in a major breakthrough in a high profile murder case in Norfolk Island.

27International donors have promised billions of dollars to help rebuild and transform Afghanistan.