1The High Court in Auckland's been told a man accused of murdering a woman by deliberately crashing his car into her vehicle didn't mean to hurt anyone. Tony Warrell was twice the legal limit when he plowed head on in to Katie Powell's vehicle on a rural highway.

2The Labour Party is saying that advertising promoting a TVNZ 7 series on the economy featuring the Minister of Finance, looks and sounds like a party political broadcast. The 'Focus on the Economy' series organised by TVNZ is being broadcast throughout this month.

3The Government has announced there will be an independent review in 6-months time of the Accident Compensation Authority's new sensitive claims guidelines for sexual abuse victims. From today the ACC says that it's legally required to focus only on those with a diagnosed mental injury.

4The Government has announced there will be an independent review in 6-months time of the Accident Compensation Authority's new sensitive claims guidelines for sexual abuse victims. A petition opposing the new sensitive claims policy, signed by 4-thousand people, was today presented to Parliament.

5The police in the South Auckland suburb of Mangere are urging parents to walk their children to and from school as they hunt for the man behind a series of sexual attacks on young girls.

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7Thousands of people have lined the streets of Invercargill for a ticker-tape parade to celebrate the Southland Rugby team's Ranfurly Shield win.

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9A 10-year-old Northland boy is dead after what police believe was an accident involving a gun. They've yet to release extensive details about the incident.

10An early beneficiary of New Zealand's new free trade agreement with Malaysia looks likely to be a teacher training organisation.

11Auckland businessman Colin Craig has pledged hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund a march protesting against the government's refusal to overturn the repeal of section 59 of the crimes act.

12More than 6-thousand people have packed out a courthouse in Japan to hear the famous actress and pop singer Noriko Sakai plead guilty to drug charges.

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14More than 1-million New Zealanders are now subscribed to some form of broadband Internet service. Statistics New Zealand says broadband users now account for three-quarters of all internet subscribers.

15Two United States pilots who were so distracted they forgot to land their passenger jet and overshot their destination have told investigators they were distracted by their laptops and a discussion about rosters.

16Police in Melbourne have offered a one million dollar reward to find a man suspected of ordering the killing of another man who claimed to be a 200-year-old vampire who drank blood to stay young.

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18The Labour Party is saying that advertising promoting a TVNZ 7 series on the economy featuring the Minister of Finance, looks and sounds like a party political broadcast. The 'Focus on the Economy' series organised by TVNZ is being broadcast throughout this month.

19United States president Barak Obama is vowing not to be pressured into a quick decision about troop levels in Afghanistan.

20The political crisis in Zimbabwe has deepened today following the first meeting between President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai,since the prime minister's MDC party boycotted the unity government ten days ago.

21The High Court has begun hearing the case of Kapiti Coast woman Amanda Pickard and her son who claim they were severely poisoned by a wrongly installed gas heater.

22An Australian parliamentary report has raised the possiblity of banning people from living in coastal areas threated by rising sea levels. 80-percent of Australia's population lives along the coast.

23A man has gone on trial at the High Court in Wellington for killing a young Palmerston North drug dealer, whose body has never been found.

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25Fidel Castro's younger sister has admitted working undercover for the Central Intelligence Agency in Cuba in the early 1960s.

26Britain has begun a campaign to have the former prime minister Tony Blair appointed as the first President of the European Union.

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29Japan's new centre-left Government is facing its first major test. The Japanese would like the United States' miliary base on the island of Okinawa moved. The US will not entertain the idea.