1It's going to cost you more to register and run your car as the Government moves to raise more money for Accident Compensation and cut entitlements.
2In a major u-turn today the Prime Minister has intervened in the Rugby World Cup free-to-air rights row. Mr. Key wants now wants Maori Television to become the lead bidder. Maori Television, Mediaworks and TVNZ are meeting in Auckland at the moment.
3In Auckland buses will be back on the roads tomorrow after seven days of disrupted service that's crippled public transport, causing headaches for 80-thousand commuters.
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5A Wellington schoolgirl who ran along a beach in Samoa warning people that a tsunami was about to hit has been recognised for her bravery.
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7A group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers heading for Australia are threatening to blow up their vessel after it was intercepted by the Indonesian authorities following a tip-off from Canberra.
8United States' President Obama's ambitious healthcare reform plans to guarantee the millions of Americans without health insurance, cheaper care has moved a crucial step closer. A key Senate committee has approved of his ideas, albeit in a watered-down form.
9In a sign the housing market is on the road to recovery, figures from the Real Estate Institute show house prices rose 1.9-percent between August and September.
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11The government appears to be taking a more conciliatory approach over its controversial national standards policy. After a meeting with schools yesterday, the Minister of Education Anne Tolley told the Dominion Post it had been a momentous occasion.
12The Government expects to have to borrow $250-million a week for at least the next four years to cover its cash deficits which have crashed $10.5-billion in to the red.
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14It's going to cost you more to register and run your car as the Government moves to raise more money for Accident Compensation and cut entitlements.
15A combination of hard times, dated technology and risk management have hit three big energy companies in the pocketbook, only Genesis Energy made a outright loss, though Solid Energy and Trust Power made less than expected.
16Two former managers at investment bank Bear Stearns are set to go on trial for fraud in one of the first cases arising out of the global financial crisis.
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18The Prime Minister has promised police officers that the government will make legislation getting tough on gangs a priority. John Key was speaking to a Police Association conference in Wellington, it was focussing on organised crime.
19Some of those opposed to a proposed multi-million dollar irrigation scheme in Canterbury are being given a further chance to outline their objections. The Central Plains Water Enhancement Scheme is the most ambitious of it's type in the area.
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21The Community Probation Services has been told to put more emphasis on ensuring public safety when monitoring offenders on parole.
22The global scientific community has been shocked by the news that a physicist at the European centre for nuclear research has been arrested on suspicion of having links to al Qaeda.
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24Australia's 1983 America's Cup winning skipper is rubbishing claims that the Dutch were the true architects of the revolutionary upside-down keel, that helped them to their historic win 26-years ago.
25The Reserve Bank is to scale back emergency measures put in place during last year's financial crisis - in a further sign the economy is recovering.
26A Japanese company has invented a new product to combat swine flu - a special protective suit coated with a chemical commonly used in toothpaste.
27Researchers in China and the United Kingdom say they've discovered the fossils of a new type of flying reptile that lived over 160-million years ago.