1The Reserve Bank has followed other central banks by offering to make more money available to lenders.

2US financial markets have been buoyed by a plan to create a facility to write off the bad debt currently crippling US banking.

3New Zealand-led research suggests that babies and toddlers who take Paracetamol are much more likely to develop asthma.

4A new study indicates many junior hospital doctors feel bullied on the job.

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6Warriors vs Roosters To discuss the Warriors prospects we turn to commentator Ken Laban.

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8The authorities in China say they have now found the chemical melamine in liquid milk.

9Two police officers in Lower Hutt have narrowly escaped injury after being shot at during a roadside check last night.

10Waatea News. Joe Williams to take position in High Court, he previously worked in the Maori Land Court.

11An Auckland man who faked his own death and moved to Christchurch under an assumed name has been jailed

12There's expected to be a 75 percent increase in the amount of freight carried around the country over the next 25 years.

13The Republican presidential candidate John McCain appears to have confused Spain with South America.

14New Zealand has won the first game in its Davis Cup tennis tie against China in New Plymouth.

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16A new study indicates many junior hospital doctors feel bullied on the job, and some of the major culprits are nurses.

17US financial markets have been buoyed by a plan to create a facility to write off the bad debt currently crippling US banking.

18New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, was today out on the campaign trail.

19The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has spoken of 'vast gaps in intelligence' in the wake of multiple bomb blasts.

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21In three years time students will have to stay at school or be in training until they are 17.

22Mexico's La Mesa may-sah prison has been the scene of 2 recent deadly riots.

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24Focus On Politics for 19 September 2008. Election to be held on November 8th. National leader John Key says he welcomes the campaign on trust considering the current NZ First donation saga. In polls John Key has come out above Helen Clark in terms of trustworthiness. Clark has been addressing Grey Power on issues of trust and the current economic state of NZ and the world.

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26A previously unknown piece of work by the composer Mozart has been found in a library in Nantes in the west of France.