1Opposition parties are demanding more information into the spending habits of former TVNZ Head Ross Armstrong.

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3Owners of leaky homes will have the opportunity to present their plight to a Government Parliamentary Select Committee.

4Roadworks have halted on a new stretch of highway in the Waikato because of Maori concerns over the disturbance of taniwha.

5Progressive Coalition MP Matt Robson is championing a Bill to increase annual leave to four weeks.

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7The US has presented the United Nations with a draft resolution urging action against Iraq. What impact has war talk had on the American mid-term elections?

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9A United Nations study has shown that Afghanistan is one of the worst places in the world to be a mother. Thousands of women die in childbirth without hospitalisation because their male relatives refuse to let them be treated by male doctors.

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