1The Green Party has ruled out a coalition deal with National after the election.

2Labour says National's promise to recruit additional police officers is phoney and misleading.

3Lobby groups are warning more families could be pushed below the poverty line if GST is raised.

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5The youth court's top judge is calling on courts to use electronic surveillance tags on children as young as 14.

6Services at Wellington airport are now back to normal after a fire in the main terminal this afternoon.

7Senior students at Tauranga Boys College are once again preparing to pick a winner in the battle for the electorate seat.

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9The former girlfriend of murder accused Liam Reid has told the High Court that he confessed to killing Emma Agnew.

10Statistics New Zealand is defending a compulsory survey which asks respondents for detailed information.

11The sentencing for the two people involved in the murder of South Otago teenager Michael Hutchings has been deferred.

12Waatea News. Green Party have said that Maori issues played an important role in them choosing which party they would work with.

13The Otago District Health Board says a health association needs to get off its high horse about an offer of a free beer.

14The British government's urging banks to go easy on defaulting home owners.

15Memorial Cancelled? A veterans' association says it is shocked at a callous decision by the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

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17The National Party leader John Key is warning that a Labour-Green coalition government would focus too much on the environment.

18The National Party says it would put more police out on the streets than Labour.

19A study suggests family breakdowns are costing the country at least one billion dollars a year.

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21The British government will meet bank chiefs to urge them to do more to help small businesses and homeowners.

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23The US Presidential candidate Barack Obama has set a new fundraising record.

24The Greek police have launched an inquiry into allegations that police officers carried out a public strip search.

25There may be a link between Alzheimer's disease and the essential fatty acids found in eggs, nuts and vegetable oil.

26Waatea News. Green Party have said that Maori issues played an important role in them choosing which party they would work with.

27The first meeting of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament has begun in Sydney.

28A major trial is set to open in Turkey, where 86 defendants stand accused of being part of a shadowy ultra-nationalist network.

29The NASA space agency's Phoenix lander arrived on Mars last May and since then it's made some crucial discoveries.

30The British Ministry of Defence is releasing another clutch of files on Unidentified Flying Objects.

31Workers have begun carving grooves on what will be the first"musical road"in the United States.