1Russel Norman, the co-leader of the Green Party, has gone to the police to lay assault charges against Chinese security officials after an altercation on the steps of Parliament. Dr Norman had been holding a Tibetan flag while waiting for the arrival of the Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping.

2The Security Intelligence Service has stopped spying on members of Parliament but says it will do so again if it has to. Prime Minister John Key ordered a review last year after the Green MP Keith Locke found that he had been monitored by the SIS up until 2006.

3The police are about start random checks on firearms licences after a report questioning whether Christchurch gunman Shayne Sime, who was killed in a police shoot out, should ever have been permitted to possess firearms.

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5The Accident Compensation Corporation has admitted it may have moved too quickly in changing the way sexual abuse claims are dealt with. Since it toughened up the rules last year, sexual abuse victims have to undergo a more rigorous assessment and just 15 per cent have had their claims accepted.

6Telecom has agreed to refund 1300 customers over a promotion which promised broadband at dial-up prices, when in fact that was not what they got. The company admits it breached the Fair Trading Act and as part of its settlement with the Commerce Commission will refund those affected a total of about $120,000.

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8The Prime Minister John Key says it is too early to apportion any blame over the altercation between the Green Party co-leader Russel Norman and Chinese security guards on Parliament grounds today.

9Green Party list MP Keith Locke is relieved the Security Intelligence Service has stopped spying on him, arguing that he has always been a legitimate dissenter. The Prime Minister John Key ordered a review of the service last year after Mr Locke found that he had been monitored up until 2006.

10BP's embattled chief executive, Tony Hayward, has been grilled by angry politicians in Washington who have been questioning him about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

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12There are fears the number of dead after days of ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan may be much higher than the official toll of more than 190.

13New figures show nearly one in five students at universities, wananga and polytechnics fails more than half their courses each year.

14Rugby World Cup organisers say they will prosecute companies which engage in malicious ambush marketing during next year's tournament. Strict intellectual property laws have been enforced in South Africa where two Dutch women are accused of ambushing a beer sponsorship deal at the football World Cup.

15A Dutch court has handed out prison sentences to five Somali pirates in the first such case to come to trial in Europe.

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17The Prime Minister has described a physical altercation between Green Party co-leader Russel Norman and security guards accompanying the Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping as very disappointing.

18There has been a call for international peacekeepers to be sent into Kyrgyzstan before thousands of people lose their lives in ethnic cleansing.

19BP's embattled chief executive ,Tony Hayward, has been grilled by angry politicians in Washington who have been questioning him about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

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21The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, is visiting London later today to mark an important moment during World War Two. Mr Sarkosy and British Prime Minister David Cameron are also due to hold talks, but up until now have had a somewhat strained relationship.

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23Focus on politics: the National-led Government has reached a deal with the Maori Party to repeal the contentious 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act and replace it with a new law.

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25The Gulf of Mexico oil spill has drawn attention to President Obama's energy policy, and America's continuing reliance on oil.