1The International Monetary Fund has issued a warning about tax cuts only two days ahead of Michael Cullen's ninth Budget.

2The murder trial of Chris Kahui over the death of his twin sons has been hearing closing statements, with the Crown arguing why the twins mother could not have killed her baby boys as the Defence has claimed.

3Senior Labour Cabinet Minister Phil Goff is under pressure after an interview with Alt TV in which he makes comments on the possibility of Labour losing the Election and whether he might be the next leader of the Party after Helen Clark.

4The inquest into the death of Folole Muliaga has seen a pathologist tell the hearing that the failure of her oxygen machine contributed to her death.

5Business News.

6The Government has announced a 36 million dollar plan to revitalise coastal shipping.

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8A 90 year-old investor in failed Finance Group Blue Chip Property Finance has had documents demanding mortgage repayments served on her as she lay sick in bed.

949 year old Ian Crutchley is charged with trying to kill 77 year old Elsie Crutchley in February last year.

10British MP's have approved changes to the laws widening the use of human embryos .

11The South African Government's resisting calls to put troops on the streets of Johannesburg despite growing violence.

12Waatea News: The Latest in Maori News including reaction to the release on bail of Bailey Junior Kuariki - New Zealand's youngest convicted murderer; and celebrations by Te Mangai Paho over half a million hours of Te Reo television, with Prime Minister Helen Clark saying her Government helped make it possible.

13Myanmar's military rulers have announced three days of mourning for the victims of Cyclone Nargis.

14A company has expressed interest in providing a luxury passenger rail service running between Auckland and Wellington by 2011.

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16Thousands of people are now known to have died in Sichuan province following the earthquake that struck China.

17Venezuela is demanding an explanation from Washington after a US military aircraft violated its airspace.

18A new review has found that schools could do more to communicate with parents of students.

19The National Party has sought to implicate Government Ministers in the saga of former Immigration Head Mary Anne Thompson in Parliament this afternoon.

20Business News.

21Sealord's plan to close a mussel processing plant in Nelson with the loss of 320 jobs has sent a shockwave through the region

22News from the United Kingdom, including a plan for a database of all emails and phonecalls; the heroism of pilots who managed to crash land a British Airways plan; and British MPs giving a greenlight to the Government's plan to use human/animal hybrid embryos for research.

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24A ninety-year-old investor in the failed Blue Chip property finance company has had documents demanding mortgage repayments.

25In America, Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama is furious over an online video attacking comments by his wife considered unpatriotic.

26Waatea News: The Latest in Maori News.

27Australia's Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says the first transaction under the country's National Emissions Trading Scheme shows business taking it seriously.

28Since a recent cyclone wreaked devestation on Myanmar, the military dictatorship has not only been restricting foreign aid workers but foreign journalists as well.

29Talks are underway between the United States, North Korea and Japan over North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.