1Detectives investigating the "Body-in-the-Suitcase" case have revealed that a ransom of $800,000 was demanded from the victim's parents.

2A construction labourer has appeared in the Napier District Court, in relation to the killing of Hawke's Bay farmer Jack Nicholas.

3Petrol prices have hit a record high, a week after the last record, with increases today of six cents a litre.

4An Auckland woman who was given the wrong drugs and became so sick she had to be hospitalised wants more than an apology, she wants the pharmacy that gave her the drugs to be audited.

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6A Christchurch man has been convicted of assaulting a boy he believed was bullying his daughter.

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8The soil contamination problem plaguing a number of Auckland childcare facilities has widened.

9Richard Kroon and another man each face five charges in relation to the kidnapping of Mr Kroon's business partner.

10The actions of off-duty police officers are being called into question following a report into the death of a man in Auckland in 2004.

11The Murapara school at the centre of a fraud case involving its principal has narrowly escaped having a statutory manager.

12Pacific Whales Watchers support New Zealand's push to stymie Japan's persistent plan to stack the International Whaling Commission's voting.

13Defence lawyers have told a US court that Zacarias Moussaoui came from a broken home where his mother was repeatedly beaten.

14Waatea News: The Latest in Maori News.

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16There have been significant developments in Auckland's body in the suitcase killing.

17All four major oil companies have now put up their petrol prices by six cents a litre.

18A Christchurch school is at the centre of a bullying case - which ended up with a parent fined for assault.

19The national median house price has broken the $300,000 mark for the first time.

20The Israeli army has carried out a raid in the west of the Gaza strip.

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22There is serious rioting on Solomon Islands, with hundreds of protesters looting shops and torching vehicles.

23In just a few hours time...it'll be 100 years to the minute since the great San Francisco earthquake destroyed the city.

24Australia's Prime Minister John Howard says his country has nothing to apologise for regarding Papuan Asylum Seekers.

25In the United Kingdom, more voters are considering backing the far right-right party, the BNP. Plus, there will be a commemoration for the first time of the Easter Uprising.

26Waatea News: The Latest in Maori News including Prime Minister Helen Clark wishing former MP John Tamihere luck in his new position as Chief Executive of the Waipareira Trust; and The Green Party having a dig at Whanau being used to describe the traditional "nuclear family" as opposed to a wider, inclusive community.

27Tensions in the middle east are driving the international oil price to new highs.