1There's a new $220,000,000 plan out today to revitalise the struggling meat industry and make it as lucrative as dairying.

2Comments from Federated Farmers new Meat and Fibre Council chairman Bruce Wills.

3Three investigations are underway, after a worker who has since been dismissed taped an elderly woman's mouth shut.

4The Health and Disability Commissioner is going ahead with a hotly debated plan to name facilities that are not up to standard.

5Police in Wanganui say they're hunting for a man in connection with the fatal shooting of a 24 year old woman.

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7The student's association that runs the annual Undie 500 pub crawl from Christchurch to Dunedin has cancelled this year's event.

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9The All Black rugby player Jimmy Cowan is to face a misconduct hearing after being arrested on charges of disorderly behaviour.

10Malaysia's main opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim remains holed up in the Turkish embassy in Kuala Lumpur.

11A campaigner has laid a complaint with the police after a video showing a gun pointed at his head was posted on You Tube.

12Waatea News. John Tamihere says Government is getting a cheap deal from the treaty settlements.

13After being sworn-in for a sixth term as President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe is expected to face down his critics.

14Spanish football fans in New Zealand are celebrating following their team's Euro 2008 win against Germany this morning.

15A new report has confirmed the refrigerant gas used in the Tamahere coolstore was highly flammable propane gas.

16In a few hours time, the former foreign minister of Cambodia is due to make his first public appearance at the tribunal.

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18The country's biggest meat and rural servicing companies have announced a $220,000,000 proposal.

19The Prime Minister is denying crown liability for so-called leaky homes, despite a group of mayors asking the government help.

20A specialist in geriatric care is being sent by the Auckland District Health board to review Belhaven rest Home

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23For the latest news from the United Kingdom we are joined now by our correspondent in London, Barney Burnham. United Kingdom has said it will help with reconstruction in Zimbabwe. Street stabbings rising in London amongst teenagers. Concerns over Prince William's lavish helicopter flights and the cost to the tax payer.

24Exactly one hundred years ago today, the earth was shaken by the most violent impact in recent history, that of comet Tunguska

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25The Israeli cabinet has backed a prisoner swap with the Lebanese Hezbollah movement.

26The world's biggest oil companies are set to return to Iraq more than 35 years after Saddam Hussein nationalised the industry.

27Bill Gates resigned at the weekend from Microsoft.

28The people of the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean were forced from their homes by the British 40 years ago