1National is accusing the government of launching an unfair tax attack upon thousands of investors.

2The government's voluntary workplace savings scheme, KiwiSaver, will mean thousands more people investing in managed funds.

3Australia's Foreign Minister made his first appearance at the Cole Inquiry into allegations that the Australian Wheat Board paid kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime.

4The jogger who found the body of Birgit Brauer says her skin was cold by the time he found her.

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6A drive-by shooting in the Lower Hutt suburb of Naenae has left residents shocked and fearful for their safety.

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8A grandmother who claimed she was duped into importing cocaine into NZ by a Nigerian drug gang has been sent to jail.

9The Tranz Alpine Express train today almost crashed into a concrete mixer stopped on the train tracks.

10Italy's centre-left leader Romano Prodi has claimed victory in the general election by the narrowest of margins.

11Maori Tertiary provider Te Wananga O Aotearoa is to axe a quarter of its staff under a move it says is necessary.

12The fight for a Coromandel township's marina has moved up a gear - with legal action and a push for compensation.

13Waatea News: The Latest in Maori News including Maori Party Co-Leader Tariana Turia claiming that a meeting of Labour Party's Maori MPs was designed to work out a way to target Maori Party MPs.

13The Business sector is responding cautiously to new figures showing business confidence on the rise.

14There's been a milestone for Auckland's public transport network, with train use hitting an all time high.

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16The Government has unveiled a raft of new rules on how investments - both in New Zealand and offshore - will be taxed.

17Three separate searches are taking place across the country involving around 130 volunteers looking for a missing people.

18Hundreds of thousands of people have been protesting in cities across the United States in support of illegal immigrants.

19Enron's former Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling took the witness stand in his own defence today.

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21Three million doses of the meningococcal vaccine shot have been given to babies and youngsters since 2004.

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23After weeks of street protests in France, President Chirac has announced he's scrapping a new youth labour law.

24The Bush administration has spent the last 24 hours playing down reports that it's considering military strikes against Iran.

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26A Tauranga Iwi - alarmed by the Maori rates of drowning - is offering free diving courses.

27Wellington's Regional Land Transport Committee has voted to include proposed inland highway in its Western Corridor Plan.

28Immigration demonstrations that have been held across the country today were not all confined to big cities.