1The High Court in Auckland today heard a friend of teenage tagger Pihema Cameron describe seeing him killed. Bruce Emery is charged with murdering Cameron in Janurary 2008 after stabbing Cameron in the chest for tagging on his garage door.

2Godfrey Muraahi today pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Jhia Te Tua in May 2007. He was one of six men before the High Court in Wellington in relation to the death of the Wanganui toddler.

3All of parliament's 122 MPs have been sworn-in today, with the National MP Lockwood Smith elected as Speaker of the House.

4Police in Wellington are looking for two men after one of them fired at a truck on the Hutt motorway.

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6The Green Party says the government needs to take action following the release of a report which shows up to a third of the country's most popular swimming spots are unsafe.

7The Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga has intensified his public opposition of Zimbabwean prime minister Robert Mugabe, by calling for international military intervention to combat the outbreak of cholera in the country. The United Nations is warning 60000 people could contract Cholera in the next few weeks.

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9The Government has announced that the United Future leader Peter Dunne will chair the Parliamentary review of the E.T.S. Under National's post-election deal with the ACT party, the scheme is to be reviewed.

10The Australian Taxi Industry Association is backing calls for cabs here to have government funded security systems. The calls come after the Police investigate the killing of taxi driver Abdulrahman Ikhtiati.

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12At least eight people have appeared in a special sitting of the Westport District Court after the Police cracked a cannabis cultivation and supply ring worth millions of dollars. Police from all three South Island Districts were involved in Operation Marvel.

13Local councils say they've had a constructive and concilitary meeting with their new Minister Rodney Hide. Mr Hide wants councils to redcuce rate rises to the rate of inflation.

14A gay sex scene on Shortland Street breached the interests of children and standards of good taste and decency according to Broadcasting Standards Authority. It's the first time the Broadcasting Standards Authority has upheld a complaint about the programme.

15The Ministry of Health says it may never know how many people have bought a potentially deadly medicine from Chinese supermarket.

16Thousands of young people have rampaged through the cities of Athens and Thessaloniki, in a second day of rioting following the killing of a teenages by Police. They claim he was one of many throwing stones and worse at a police car.

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18At least sixteen fire appliances from across Auckland have been rushing to a blaze which has engulfed a Mitre 10 store in Onehunga. Damage to a power transformer may affect supply to surrounding areas.

19In Britain the Food Standards Agency, or FSA, has warned against eating pork products from Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.

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21Australia's bio-security watchdog has lifted its ban on New Zealand tomatoes and capsicum. The ban has been in place since June, since the New Zealand bio-security agency found a bio organism in three Auckland greenhouses.

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23United States President elect Barack Obama predicts the US economy will get worse before it gets better. Obama unveiled the deails what he said would be the largest public works programme since the 1950s.