1Co-ordinated bomb blasts have ripped through two luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, killing at least nine people including a New Zealander and leaving over 40 others injured.

2The Labour Party says the Prime Minister should be embarrassed by a downgrade in New Zealand's credit rating outlook, having tried so hard to avoid one with the Budget. International rating agency Fitch has moved the country from a stable, to a negative rating.

3The Influenza A H1N1 'swine flu' outbreak has forced Canterbury District Health Board to postpone all elective heart surgery because of pressure on its intensive care unit.

4Claims are flooding into the Earthquake Commission after Fiordland's massive quake, with predictions the final numbers could be in their thousands and top $4-million.

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6NASA has lost the original recordings of the first landing on the moon, Apollo 11, 40 years ago.

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8The government is being warned against cutting public spending despite the downgrading of New Zealand's credit rating outlook from stable to negative. The Council of Trade Unions says the government must keep spending in order to control the rising unemployment rate.

9The Prime Minister's chief scientific advisor says New Zealand scientists are wasting too much time competing with each other. Professor Peter Gluckman is presenting his first speech in the role at Massey University tonight.

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11Co-ordinated bomb blasts have ripped through two luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, killing at least nine people including a New Zealander and leaving over 40 others injured.

12Marlborough wine growers say rogue contractors are taking advantage of tough economic times to rip-off people desperate for work.

13Car enthusiasts say they're afraid a new government bill will unfairly punish them as it seeks to target boy racers.

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15Co-ordinated bomb blasts have ripped through two luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, killing at least nine people including a New Zealander and leaving over 40 others injured.

16Australia's Federal opposition is keeping up the pressure on the Government to take a stronger stand with the Chinese Government over Rio Tinto employee Stern Hu's arrest and detention.

17NASA, has begun a series of events to mark the fortieth anniversary of the lift-off of Apollo Eleven, the 1969 mission that put the first man on the moon.

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19Hundreds of charities have to wait for money from one of the country's biggest community trusts. The ASB Community Trust says it is to allow for time for financial markets to recover.

20A rare Southern Right Whale and her calf are showing no signs of shifting from Waiwera, north of Auckland, where they have been for about a week.

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22Focus on Politics: The election of Barack Obama as United States president late last year marked the end of the hands-off free market policies promoted by his predecessor George Bush. Trade unions who supported President Obama say more changes are on the way. One of those unions is the more than two million strong Service Employees International Union. Its president Andy Stern was in New Zealand recently and he talked to our political editor Brent Edwards.

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24Jumbo squid have been giving divers a rare treat in an unusual visit to the shallow waters off the coast of San Diego.