1Capital Merchant Finance is the 13th Finance Company to go under in less than two years.

2Football Star David Beckham has arrived in New Zealand.

3There's been an apology and back-down from Capital and Coast District Health Board in Wellington over a plan to encourage mothers of newborn babies to go home almost immediately after giving birth.

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5The High Court has overturned a ruling which said Woolworths and Foodstuffs couldn't bid for the retailer The Warehouse.

6SKY TV has beaten TVNZ to win the rights to the 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Summer Games.

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8In Australia, the changing of the political guard has continued with the appointment of a new Labor cabinet and selection of a new leader for the Liberals, replacing John Howard who lost both the election and his own political seat.

9A new movie called "Awake" plays up a common fear of being paralysed on the operating table but being able to feel every cut.

10Delays over Christmas last year slowed the execution of a warrant to arrest Graeme Burton for breaching parole.

10Waatea News: The Latest in Maori News including the Government considering a redevelopment of the Maori Trustee into an organisation to act as a type of Maori Development Bank.

11Wellington's Capital and Coast District Health Board has abandoned a plan to offer supermarket vouchers to new mothers who leave hospital soon after birth.

12A Conservation study has found that the Mediterranean Sea is the most dangerous place in the world for sharks and rays.

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14Soccer's biggest superstar - David Beckham - touched down in New Zealand today to a memorable welcome at Wellington airport.

15The run of finance company failures has continued today, with the collapse of Capital and Merchant Finance.

16The cement maker Holcim has been given interim consent to build a massive new cement plant near Oamaru.

17The Christchurch coroner has criticised the Department of Labour and the police over not investigating the death of a teenager under a rubbish truck.

18Figures say more than 160 people were killed and at least 13,000 were made homeless by the recent floods in Papua New Guinea.

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20The Haps' is an online youth portal created by young people at the Computer Clubhouse 274 in South Auckland.

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22The mystery of the death of the former Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer at the Cricket World Cup has deepened with a jury today returning an open verdict on the cause of his death.

23Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is expected to be sworn in as Civilian President a day after he stepped down as the head of the army.

24The Government has delayed a decision on protections for New Zealand's rarest dolphins while it deals with 2475 submissions on the proposal.

25Waatea News: The Latest in Maori News.

26The next step in food production has got the food regulator for Australia and NZ bracing itself for more controversy.

27Half of this country's climate change gas is from methane and scientists are working on a vaccine they soon hope to trial to prevent the emission of methane from cows and sheep.

28Police in Ghana have arrested four people accused of trafficking children.