1The Maori flag will fly alongside the New Zealand flag on the Auckland Harbour Bridge and government buildings on Waitangi Day. The Government has announced the Tino rangatiratanga flag is the flag prefered by Maori.

2The family of Stephen Bellingham have for the first time heard from the police officer who shot their son and brother as part of an inquest in Christchurch.

3In the Philippines, journalists who escaped one of the country's worst massacres are still in fear of their lives as accusations mount over the Government's willingness to prosecute those responsible.

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5A tropical cyclone warning has been issued in Fiji with Cyclone Mick intensfying as it approaches the main island of Viti Levu.

6Around 80 to 90-thousand Telecom XT customers lost mobile phone coverage today after a major fault caused the network to crash early this morning.

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8The Mayor of Lower Hutt says he'll continue to fight for something to be done about the appalling NCEA pass rates at some local secondary schools.

9A man has been charged with manslaughter, after what a court has heard was the accidental shooting of his partner while she took photos of him posing with a firearm.

10A refrigeration company has been accused of 'creating a bomb' at a coolstore that exploded killing a fireman and injuring seven others.

11A construction company has been fined $65-thousand and ordered to pay almost $150-thousand in reparation after two men were killed working on Christchurch's wastewater ocean outfall. Heron Construction pleaded guilty to failing to ensure their safety.

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13In Thailand police have charged four Kazakhs and a Belarussian who flew into into Bangkok on a cargo plane bristling with 30-tonnes of sanctions-busting weapons from North Korea.

14Police have arrested some 200-people following a demonstration in Copenhagen, where world leaders are continuing to debate how to tackle climate change.

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16The Maori flag will fly alongside the New Zealand flag on the Auckland Harbour Bridge and government buildings on Waitangi Day. The Government has announced the Tino rangatiratanga flag is the flag prefered by Maori.

17The Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been hit in the face at a rally in Milan. He's reported to have two broken teeth, a fractured nose, and cuts to his lip. He is being kept in hospital for observation.

18France is accusing the Australian Government of pushing for rule changes to cover up the country's massive carbon emissions from deforestation. The Australian delegation at Copenhagen has endured criticism over its proposed new regulations on how land use changes are accounted for.

19The New Zealand Government has made its offer of a 10 to 20-percent cut in this country's carbon emissions conditional on getting favourable changes to the rules on land use, and has been working with Australia on many of its proposals.

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21Methamphetamine, or P, is increasingly becoming part of a cocktail of dangerous substances that are going into ecstasy tablets.

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23News from the United Kingdom, including: national security and Britain's relationship with the United States; Freedom of Information Act; court costs are 140-percent higher in the UK then the rest of Europe;

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25A report from the Canterbury Regional Council shows more than half of the province's dairy farms aren't complying with effluent management rules.

26Australia's federal government is being told to prepare for a more dangerous nuclear future. A report has suggested that the world's 31-thousand strong nuclear arsenal is likely to expand and that Australia should take radical measures to protect itself.

27The President of the United States Barack Obama has lashed out at some of America's biggest banks calling them fat cats.