1A jury has been told that the Kahui twins were so badly injured nothing could have been done to save them.

2A day of rain throughout most of Waikato has drought afflicted farmers starting to breath a sigh of relief.

3A Thai immigrant has told a depositions hearing that former Labour (now Independent) MP Taito Phillip Field let her stay at a safe house rent free.

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5The Government says its $200,000,000 Meningococcal B immunisation campaign has"kneecapped the epidemic" and is no longer needed.

6In America, Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama is standing by his comments that some small town Pennsylvanians are bitter people who cling to guns and religion. He is, however, conceding he could have expressed them better.

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8A 51 year old construction worker - Murray Foreman - from Haumoana is charged with killing farmer Jack Nicholas.

9The police investigating the disappearance of Marie Davis have begun reinterviewing the family and friends.

10There are claims that media reporting about the benefits of prostate cancer screening is biased and inaccurate.

11Waatea News: The Latest in Maori News including a bid for the Court to block a planned Central North Island Iwi "treelord" deal on Crown Forestries.

12A man extradited from Australia to face trial on historical sex charges has pleaded guilty.

13Australia's Attorney-General Robert McClellan says the Government's considering introducing laws to counter cyber attacks, including intercepting e-mails without consent.

14Seven Kakapo chicks born just over a fortnight ago are being moved to a hand- rearing facility in Nelson.

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16Food prices around the World have surged by more than a third in the past year.

17There's been a significant breakthrough in Kenya where, following the election, the President has named his main rival as Prime Minister.

18It's been more than two weeks since Zimbabwe's general election and there's still no official confirmation of results.

19An environmental group opposing Trustpower's 200 megawatt windfarm at Lake Mahinerangi near Dunedin is vowing to fight on.

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21A High Court trial in Blenheim has heard how a teenager inhaling from an LPG cylinder inside a car died after his friend flicked a lighter and caused an explosion.

22People with very fair skin and those under eighteen are to be banned from using solariums.

23New Zealand's first woman district court judge, Dame Augusta Wallace, has died at the age of 78.

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25Auckland University researchers are investigating one of the reasons why some people say they do not "get" math - Dyscaculia, the mathematical version of dyslexia.

26Charges of unlawful assembly are expected to be laid early this week against seventeen people in Fiji arrested at a vigil outside the Chinese Embassy.

27There's a call for urgent public debate about the state of science in New Zealand.

28Waatea News: The Latest in Maori News.

29Civil rights campaigners in Australia are protesting over a proposal that would allow companies to check their workers' emails without consent.

30Confounding most expectations the party of the former rebel Maoists in Nepal appears to be heading for electoral victory.

31Thousands of people gathered at a train station in Berlin yesterday to see an exhibition on a vintage German steam train commemorating the Jewish children deported and executed in World War 2.