1Labour has once again courted the student vote - announcing plans to abolish income testing on student loans by 2012.

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3The Government has been criticised for unnecessarily politicising the financial crisis.

4A man is dead, after an armed domestic dispute south of Auckland this morning.

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6About $4,500,000 was spent on investigations into sexual violation complaints by Louise Nicholas.

7The National Party says it would launch what it's calling a crusade on literacy and numeracy if it becomes the government.

8Waatea News. ACT Party leader Rodney Hide has said the Maori Party should try and become part of the cabinet if presented with the opportunity.

9The Crown says a Korean backpacker was strangled after hitching a ride with his killers near Westport.

10The Australian-owned budget airline JetStar is expanding its New Zealand operation, with trans-Tasman flights from Auckland.

11There are very few women in Moroccan politics despite the presence of a quota system for the national parliament.

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13European leaders meeting in Paris have agreed on a plan to jointly confront the international financial crisis.

14Historian Scott Reynolds from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg Virginia has been researching the panic of 1873.

15The family of the missing Christchurch woman, Tisha Lowry, have today made a heartfelt plea for information.

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17The father of a missing seven year old girl says the police aren't doing enough to trace his daughter.

18Dunedin will be home to the country's first design institute, now that the government has offered a suspensory loan.

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20Latin America McDonalds restaurants have been shut down due to"tax irregularities"in Venezuela.

21Since the agreement was signed between the President Robert Mugabe and Mr Tsvangarai there's been no progress.

22Barack Obama may be closing the gap with John McCain in Ohio - one of the key battleground states in the US Presidential race.

23Waatea News. Petition handed in to parliament about the ongoing alienation of Whenua. Chris Trotter has speculated that Winston Peters will get back into Parliament.

24A paper by a Swinburn University professor reveals a shift in voter sentiment over Australian immigration policy.

25Christchurch researchers are investigating what prevents girls who are good at science at school from becoming scientists.

26Balding men used to be able to blame their mothers for the genes that led to their hair loss.

27Australia's oldest person is celebrating her 112th birthday at her Melbourne nursing home today.