1Documents have revealed that the Government was warned two years ago that Solid Energy was in serious financial trouble.

2It has been revealed that the teenage driver involved in a triple fatality north-west of Auckland yesterday afternoon did not have a driver's license. Seventeen year old Cheyenne Hemana and her two nephews aged 11 and 2 were killed after the car she was driving collided with a van on State Highway 16. A 6 year old girl is in hospital with serious injuries.

3Kevin Rudd says he will never challenge Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard for the Australian Labor Party leadership. Five Rudd loyalists have now been sacked or forced to resign in the wake of yesterday's abandoned leadership challenge.

4Police divers have been examining a river in the latest step in the hunt for the killer of road worker George Taiaroa near Tokoroa.

5A man and a woman have appeared in court charged with abduction after a sick baby was taken from Auckland's Starship Hospital last night. The ten-day old baby was found safe by Police this morning and was returned to the hospital's intensive care department.

6Tuhoe has received a Treaty compensation settlement of $170 million as well as an apology for the 2007 terror raids in Ruatoki.

7For the first time, drought has been officially declared in parts of the South Island's West Coast.

8This summer, 31 people drowned in New Zealand, and although this number is lower than in previous years, the season's hot weather has seen the number of beach drownings double.

9Waikato Police have enlisted the support of players from the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic netball franchise for their latest drink-driving blitz.

10Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has made a rare public appearance on the streets of Damascus.

11United States President Barack Obama both criticised and sympathised with Israelis today as he called for a new start in the Middle East.

12Cypriot MPs are struggling to agree on a bail-out deal as Cyprus teeters on the brink of financial collapse.

13A new colour-enhanced map shows the split second after the "Big Bang" when stars and galaxies began, indicating that the universe is around 13.82 billion years ago, eighty million years older than scientists thought.

14The new Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, has been enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral in a ceremony steeped in history, but with some modern elements.

15Around half of all Mobil service stations in Christchurch have run out of diesel as the South Island faces a fuel shortage caused by maintenance at the Marsden Point oil refinery.

16Prime Minister John Key is promising to make it easier for Thai people to get visas to come to New Zealand.

17440,000 New Zealanders have pre-registered for Mighty River Power shares.

18The Earthquake Commission has accidentally sent details of the personal claims for nearly 10,000 damaged Canterbury homes to a member of the public.

19Quake-damaged houses restored to their former glory and shock-proof new structures were opened to visitors in Christchurch today as part of the New Zealand House and Garden Tours 2013.