1Another upheaval is underway for New Zealand's electricity industry. The Government has had enough of electricity company which put up prices 2.5-times the rate of inflation, and then struggling to meet supply every couple of years. It plans to take-up nearly all the recommendations made to it by a ministerial taskforce set up to investigate the electricity industry.

2New Zealand has confirmed it was consulted about a controversial draft document leaked at the start of climate change talks in Copenhagen. The proposal was drawn up by a group of industrialised countries and has sparked outrage amongst developing countries and environmentalists.

3A police officer has been found not guilty of manslaughter in a majority verdict by a jury at the High Court in Auckland. Constable Clinton Hill is on trial in the High Court in Auckland for the manslaughter of George Harris in 2004.

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5The new United States Ambassador to New Zealand has spoken to the media for the first time. He didn't speak until he was four, plays rugby and wants to drink wine from the top of the North Island to the bottom of the South.

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7Iraq's parliament has held an emergency session to discuss last night's co-ordinated attacks in Baghdad, which analysts say are an attempt to inflame religious and ethnic divides in the run-up to the election.

8The police in Hamilton say they hold grave fears for an elderly woman missing now for a week, although there's no evidence yet that she's been the victim of an attack. 82-year-old Audrey Gibson was last seen leaving her hairdresser in the suburb of Queenswood.

9Hamilton International Airport says it's being singled out and bullied over a plan by Customs to charge it for providing services which other airports get for free.

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11The distraught mother of Dean Carroll, who died after being misdiagnosed at Christchurch Hospital, sobbed in court this morning as video footage showing her son in acute pain was played to the coroners court.

12To the United States now where there's evidence the allegations about Tiger Woods's extra-marital affairs are damaging the top golfer's brand.

13Scientists have been tagging individual whitebait in an effort to re-introduce the disappearing species to Auckland waterways.

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15Consumer New Zealand says it expects customers to be the winners from the Government's plan to radically overhaul the electricity industry. The Government wants to encourage more competition in to the system and introduce a system that would compensate consumers during a power crisis.

16Opponents of a plan for intensive dairy farming in South Canterbury say they're worried that one of the company directors involved has breached effluent discharge consents in the past.

17The Copenhagen summit shouldn't be written off just yet, according to a leading New Zealand policy analyst after the leak of a compromise deal sent the talks into turmoil. Developing countries and environmentalists say it would disadvantage poorer nations and threaten the success of the summit.

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19The Minister of Labour Kate Wilkinson has ordered a report into workplace deaths following 30-fatalities in just five months this year - almost double the figure for previous years.

20Researchers charting human immigration patterns over the last 60-thousand years are revealing fascinating new insights into what's termed as our 'deep ancestry'.

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22Delegates at a Pacific Island economic development conference in Manukau City have been told by Minister of Pacific Affairs Georgina Te Heuheu that the National-led government wants to forge closer relationships with the community's many churches.

23The top American commander in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal has told a Congressional committee that President Obama's decision to deploy 30-thousand more troops will help reverse the Taliban's current momentum.

24What's thought to be Australia's largest cull of feral camels is due to take place this week near the remote town of Docker River.

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26The leaked draft final agreement at the United Nations climate summit reveals divisions between industrialised and developing nations over climate change policies. The document talks of limiting the United Nations' role in making climate change policy and removes the Kyoto Protocol altogether.

27The former head of the United Kingdom's Joint Intelligence Committee Sir John Scarlett has told the official British inquiry into the Iraq war that there was no conscious intention to manipulate information about weapons of mass destruction.

28Human Rights Watch has accused police in Brazil's two biggest cities of routinely resorting to lethal force and often executing suspects. The organisation has made the claims after a two year investigation in Rio de Janeiro and San Palo.

29Northern Ireland's first deputy prime minister says the government system which operates under the Good Friday Agreement will be unsustainable unless some progress is made by Christmas.