1People on the North Shore have spent the day cleaning up and counting the cost of yesterday's freak tornado.

2Fuel companies are defending the latest rise in the cost of petrol against claims the record high is unjustified.

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4Young beneficiaries are being given a multi-million dollar push towards work, though the Government is coy on where the money is coming from.

5There's an investigation into what happened to an Interislander cargo ferry which hit something in the Tory Channel this morning.

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7In Albany some stores are likely to remain closed for weeks because of damage caused by the freak tornado earlier in the week.

8The ACT Party's former leader Rodney Hide is planning to win back the confidence of the party's new leader Don Brash. Dr. Brash says there is no place for Mr. Hide in a future ACT caucus but the MP hopes the man who rolled him might change his mind.

9Amnesty International says that North Korea is holding about 200-thousand people in political prison camps where they are being tortured and treated like slaves.

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11Pakistan has hit back at suggestions that it is an untrustworthy partner on terrorism. It's foreign office has released a statement denying that it had any knowledge of the operation against Osama bin Laden and condemns any unauthorised unilateral action.

12A week after Hawke's Bay was battered by severe storms, almost forty homes in Te Awanga, Ocean Beach and Waimarama remain off-limits.

13People are leaving Christchurch for good at double the rate than before February's earthquake.

14The dangers of online security breaches have been highlighted once again by a second admission from the Japanases electronics firm Sony that it's PlayStation network had been hacked.

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16Some North Shore businesses and home owners face a long task repairing buildings damaged in the freak tornado. The Insurance Council is predicting the bill could run to tens of millions of dollars.

17Wellington city's move to raise parking charges will make it the country's most expensive place to park a car. The council wants to raise the charge per hour from $4 to $5 and apply the charges for an extra two hours on week nights.

18British Prime Minister David Cameron has addressed the House of Commons on the death of Osama bin Laden saying the world is a better place without him.

19In Russia the Kremlin is calling the killing of Osama bin Laden a serious success for the United States.

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21A new centre being set up to help Canterbury businesses struggling after the recent earthquakes says it's getting ready to open its doors and is calling for applications from interested companies.

22The Christchurch earthquake has put off visitors coming to New Zealand with numbers plunging 11-percent in March. The strong New Zealand dollar is also having an effect.

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24The White House has changed its story about how Osama bin Laden was killed, and is under growing pressure to explain why he wasn't taken alive. It now says the al-Qaeda leader was not armed despite earlier saying he resisted in a fire fight.

25The ACT Party's former leader Rodney Hide is planning to win back the confidence of the party's new leader Don Brash. Dr. Brash says there is no place for Mr. Hide in a future ACT caucus but the MP hopes the man who rolled him might change his mind.

26Many people in Christchurch have taken up smoking again or are going through more cigarettes a day since earthquakes began rattling the region.

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28Human rights groups are pressuring the North Korean regeime to close the country's political prison camps. Amnesty International has released satellite imagery which it says prove the camps are growing in size.

29This week Britons will vote in a referrendum to decide whether they change their voting system. The campaign has divided the co-alition government with the Prime Minister David Cameron keen to keep the First Past the Post, FPP system.

30The first revamped Air Force's Orion aircraft has officially been delivered, with five more to come in the next two years.