1The Prime Minister has said that if the Labour Party has given him sufficent evidence to back up an earlier sexual allegation against Richard Worth, he would have sacked him then. Dr. Worth has resigned from his ministerial portfolios as the police investigae new allegations of a sexual nature. Labour Leader Phil Goff told John Key last month about a seperate complaint from another woman.

2After less than an hour the jury deliberating in the retrial of David Bain were called back into the court by the judge. Justice Panckhurst called them back to clarify points raised by the council. The jury has begun its deliberations in the retrial of David Bain, a case that has a 15 year history.

3A year-long Auditor General's inquiry into the Immigration Service has found deficiencies in its decision-making processes. Today's report backs up the findings of a State Services Commission investigation which found the previous head of the department, Mary-Anne Thompson consistantly breached her department's own by policy by failing to manage conflicts of interest.

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5Telecom is scrambling to find out what caused an outage to landlines and EFTPOS facilities from the Bombay Hills to Northland for two hours today.

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7The Prime Minister has said that if the Labour Party has given him sufficient evidence to back up an earlier sexual allegation against Richard Worth, he would have sacked him then. Dr. Worth has resigned from his ministerial portfolios as the police investigate new allegations of a sexual nature. Dr. Worth has just released a statement in regard to his resignation from parliament.

8A year-long Auditor General's inquiry into the Immigration Service has found deficiencies in its decision-making processes. Today's report backs up the findings of a State Services Commission investigation which found the previous head of the department, Mary-Anne Thompson consistantly breached her department's own by policy by failing to manage conflicts of interest. The Minister of Immigration says the report's findings on the Immigration Service are shocking.

9The Government's confirmed a multimillion dollar funding boost for the country's ambulance services including funding for an extra 100 new ambulance workers. This was budgeted for by the previous Labour government.

10The state of Victoria has been blacklisted as Australia's Influenza A H1N1 'swine flu' capital.

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12Chinese police have been out in force trying to stop any commemoration of the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square. This year marks the 20-year anniversary of the protests of 1989.

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14The Prime Minister has said that if the Labour Party has given him sufficient evidence to back up an earlier sexual allegation against Richard Worth, he would have sacked him then. Dr. Worth has resigned from his ministerial portfolios as the police investigate new allegations of a sexual nature. Dr. Worth has just released a statement in regard to his resignation from parliament.

15A High Court jury has formally retired after 13 weeks of hearing evidence in the retrial of David Bain, a case that has a 15 year history. David Bain is being retried for the murders of his parents and three siblings in Dunedin in 1994.

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17A year-long Auditor General's inquiry into the Immigration Service has found deficiencies in its decision-making processes. Today's report backs up the findings of a State Services Commission investigation which found the previous head of the department, Mary-Anne Thompson consistantly breached her department's own by policy by failing to manage conflicts of interest.

18After five hours of debate, the axe has fallen on the pedestrian thoroughfare of Manners Mall in downtown Wellington. An $11-million project will reroute traffic down Manners Mall.

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20Witnesses in the trial of Nai Yin Xue have told the jury that he never feared his wife An An Liu would leave him, because he'd kill her if she left. Mr Xue is charged with the murder of his wife An An Liu, who was 26 years his junior.

21The Minister of Finance Bill English says the Government is dead against introducing a capital gains tax despite the recession erroding the returns from GST and company tax.

22The Government says it's watching closely as the Influenza A H1N1 'swine flu' virus sweeps through Australia. More than 650 cases have been identified, the majority of those in Melbourne.