1Two student pilots from Massey University's School of Aviation are dead after their single-engine planes collided in mid air.

2The former Navy diver, Robert Hewitt who survived three days at sea has told his miraculous survival story.

3The lawyer representing the chief executive of Kiwi fruit grower and exporter Zespri said his client will give evidence in the inquiry into the Australian Wheat Board and apparent bribes in Iraq during Saddam Hussein's regime.

4A Timaru man who used newspaper death notices to choose his burglary targets has been sentenced.

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6A New Zealand man has been formally charged with murder at a Norfolk Island Court.

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8Two student pilots from Massey University's School of Aviation are dead after their single-engine planes collided in mid air. The two student pilots were Brandon James Gedge, aged 20, from Tauranga and Dae Jin Hwang, aged 27, from Auckland.

9In Taranaki, two communities say they're losing out over the sale of assets from their closed schools.

10Heart surgeons who've worked with a surgeon on trial for drugs charges were witnesses in court this afternoon.

11The principal of a tiny Southland school talks about her finding out about a School Bus accident.

12The Electoral Commission has referred the Labour Party to the police for apparently over-spending on its election campaign.

13Waatea News: The Latest in Maori News including National setting a new goal for the resolution of all Treaty claims if they should come back into power.

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15Two men who ran three Hamilton-based companies have been found guilty of selling medicines illegally.

16The lure of a prize proved too much for a young Palmerston North shoplifter who was tricked into returning to the scene.

17The latest seasonally adjusted figures in the Household Labour Force Survey have been released.

18Honey from abroad could soon be on supermarket shelves in New Zealand.

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20In Washington DC hundreds of staff on Capitol Hill including many senators were evacuated from the Senate Office.

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22American adventurer Steve Fossett has taken off on a planned 81 hour journey to set a new record for longest uninterrupted flight.

23In Australia, federal politicians are embroiled in a fiery debate over access to the controversial abortion pill RU-486.

24Major works by arguably the two most important post-war British painters have sold for large sums of money in London.

25The Auckland War Memorial Museum has agreed not to display four sacred Maori burial chests.

26Tensions are high in Bougainville over border security.

27In Australia, authorities are being urged to spend whatever is needed to get all young people out of nursing homes

28Waatea News: The Latest in Maori News, including the Auckland War Memorial Museum agreeing not to display four sacred Maori burial chests..

29Sudan and Chad have signed a peace agreement following recent cross-border violence.