1The Government has exempted the family home from its proposals to introduce a Capital Gains Tax (CGT).

2Reports suggest as many as 400 people may have been killed in Romania when police fired on antigovernment protesters.

3The debt-ridden Bond Corporation's Annual General Meeting (AGM) was overshadowed today by allegations of illegal phone tapping. Australian Federal Police are investigating the corporation for allegedly tapping the phones of business rivals.

4Mortgage interest rates have begun rising again.

5Barry Johansen, a prison escapee who is described as "extremely dangerous", remains at large on the outskirts of Christchurch.

6Southland police have launched a homicide inquiry after a farmer's beaten body was discovered inside his house this morning.

7Charles Coulam has pleaded guilty to murdering English tourist Monica Cantwell and admitted he went to Mount Maunganui with the express intention of raping and murdering someone. He was today sentenced to life imprisonment.

8The deregulation of the oil industry has failed to provide motorists with the cheaper petrol politicians promised.

9The Government plans to spend $200 million on new aircraft to replace the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) aging Strikemasters with up to eighteen Aermacchi MB-339C aircraft.

10The High Court judgement for $86 million was entered against former Goldcorp Chairman Ray Smith and his family trust in Auckland today. The action was brought by the Goldcorp receiver and two directors of the former high-flying bullion company.

11Data privacy legislation will be introduced to Parliament next year. Is the suggestion of new identity cards being issued to all New Zealanders yet another sign that the State is steadily eroding the rights of the individual?