1Controversial evidence that was withheld from the jury in the retrial of David Bain has been revealed after two courts lifted suppression orders. One of the pieces of evidence was a portion of the 111 call made by Mr. Bain in which the Crown alleged he said "I shot the prick".

2Controversial evidence that was withheld from the jury in the retrial of David Bain has been revealed after two courts lifted suppression orders. One of the pieces of evidence was a portion of the 111 call made by Mr. Bain in which the Crown alleged he said "I shot the prick". The long time supporter of David Bain, Joe Karam, says the suppressed parts of the 111 phone call are a joke.

3Nineteen Auckland City Hospital staff and five patients are in isolation after a nurse and her child tested positive for swine flu last night. The woman had just returned from a holiday in the United Kingdom and had worked one day in the renal treatment facility before coming down with the illness.

4The Reserve Bank Governor has ruled out forcing commercial banks to lower their short term interest rates saying he's not going to engage in Muldoonist tactics. Dr. Bollard left the official cash rate at 2.5% today, citing improvements in the world economy.

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6The Prime Minister says he has washed his hands of former minister Richard Worth, but it does not appear he will move to have him expelled from National's caucus. John Key has now received a letter from Labour activist Neelam Choudary who claims that Dr. Worth made sexually explicit phone calls to her and sent her 40 text messages to her over a three month period, while at the same time offering her two jobs.

7A High Court jury has found Christchurch man Dean Cameron guilty of raping and murdering local schoolgirl Marie Davis. He has been sentenced to life in prison.

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9The Minister for the Environment wants local authorities to be penalised for not processing resource consents on time. A two yearly report on the administration of the Resource Management Act says councils are frequently breaching the law and consents are taking too long to be issued.

10The Prime Minister, John Key, says he wants to see Auckland's Queens Wharf used as "party central" for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. The government has it on loan from the Ports of Auckland for the duration of the event and there are rumours that the wharf will be purchased by the government.

11The Reserve Bank Governor says he won't force commercial banks to lower short term interest rates but is suggesting Parliament could interrogate the banks further. That's the message Governor Alan Bollard delivered to a finance and expenditure select committee today at parliament.

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13A jury's been revisiting the images of a little girl the moment she was abandoned at a Melbourne railway station by her father, the man accused of strangling her mother with a necktie. 55-year-old Nai Yin Xue is on trial for the murder of his wife and abandonment of his daughter in September 2007.

14Nearly two hundred passengers who were on a Jetstar flight from Japan to Australia were stranded in Guam after a cockpit fire forced the pilots to make an emergency landing. The Airbus A330 is the same model aircraft as the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic last week, killing all on board.

15A seventy-two-year-old great grandmother is threatening to sue police in the United States after an officer used an electronic stun gun - taser - on her after she was caught speeding.

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17Controversial evidence that was withheld from the jury in the retrial of David Bain has been revealed after two courts lifted suppression orders. One of the pieces of evidence was a portion of the 111 call made by Mr. Bain in which the Crown alleged he said "I shot the prick".

18For the first time in 12 months the Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard has not cut the Official Cash Rate saying there are signs the world econony is starting to recover. Dr. Bollard expects the rate to stay at that level until late next year.

19The United Nations Security Council is set to vote later this week on expanded sanctions against North Korea, in response to its nuclear test at the end of May and subsequent missile launches.

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21An overseas forestry consultant says New Zealand is poised to make millions from the export of environmentally-friendly heating products made from wood waste.

22Farmers from around the country have been spending the day at Mystery Creek for the second day of this year's National Agricultural Fieldays.

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24The public are being urged to stay away from Waikato Hospital, unless it's unavoidable, because of an outbreak of the highly infectious, norovirus. 12 of 16 people in one ward have been identified with symptoms.

25Waiheke Island residents staged a rowdy protest at the Auckland City Council today against moves to give the island's waste services contract to a company on the mainland.

26Campaigning in Iran is now over, ahead of tomorrow's presidential election. The last day of campagning saw an exchange of insults between the incumbent and his opponent.