1A High Court jury took just four and a half hours to find Clayton Weatherston guilty of Sophie Elliott's murder, rejecting his claim that he was provoked. Weatherston stabbed Miss Elliott over 200 times with a knife and scissors at her Dunedin home in January 2008.

2A High Court jury took just four and a half hours to find Clayton Weatherston guilty of Sophie Elliott's murder, rejecting his claim that he was provoked. Weatherston stabbed Miss Elliott over 200 times with a knife and scissors at her Dunedin home in January 2008. Sophie Elliot's mother Leslie heard her daughter being attacked by Weatherston and desperately tried to get into the locked room.

3A High Court jury took just four and a half hours to find Clayton Weatherston guilty of Sophie Elliott's murder, rejecting his claim that he was provoked. Weatherston stabbed Miss Elliott over 200 times with a knife and scissors at her Dunedin home in January 2008. One of the psychiatrists who appeared as a witness for the defence at the trial says he saw no signs of remorse in Weatherston.

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5A young girl who said her father let three men assault her in a car park in exchange for $40 has told the High Court in Auckland she made the whole thing up.

6The magnitude of the earthquake that hit Fiordland last week is becoming clearer - with scientists revealing that parts of the South Island are now up to 30-centimetres closer to Australia.

7Search and rescue staff have recovered the body of a pilot who crashed his light plane in thick bush in the King Country last night.

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9A police report has described 'soul destroying problems' caused by a lack of police in South Auckland - but says 300 promised new staff may not solve them.

10The Minister of Justice is expected to outline a new proposal on whether or not accused killers will be allowed to use the defence of provocation in murder trials. Simon Power has refused to comment on today's guilty of murder verdict for Clayton Weatherston, who claimed he was provoked in to killing Sophie Elliott and therefore guilty of manslaughter.

11A dramatic shake up hangs over New Zealand's largest electricity company Meridian Energy as the Government looks to extract more money from the state-dominated electricity sector.

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13The pork industry is promising that by the end of the year New Zealand produced pork bacon and ham will have labels telling consumers how much time the animals have spent in sow crates.

14More people than ever in human history have experienced a total eclipse of the sun. It was also the longest total eclipse predicted for this century, lasing over 6-minutes.

15Wellington City Council says it doesn't know what effect pollutants such as heavy metals are having on the harbour - but it says the water is safe to swim in. The Green Party however does not believe enough is being done to keep harbours and waterways clean and that more needs to be spent on sewerage facilities.

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17Clayton Weatherston claimed he had been provoked into stabbing and cutting his former girlfriend 216 times and said he should therefore be only found guilty of her manslaughter. A High Court jury took just four and a half hours to find Weatherston guilty of Sophie Elliott's murder, rejecting his claim that he was provoked. Weatherston stabbed Miss Elliott over 200-times with a knife and scissors at her Dunedin home in January 2008.

18A top level police commander is admitting that extra staff alone will be no panacea for tackling crime in the country's busiest policing district.

19Kiwifruit growers have thrown their support behind Zespri, the industry's main exporter. Turners and Growers is mounting a case at the High Court in a bid to end the company's near monopoly of kiwifruit exports.

20Taito Phillip Field has been portrayed by the Crown as a man who abused his position as an MP and who took advantage of Thai workers. The former MP is accused with 35 charges including bribery, corruption and obstruction of justice.

21Scientists in California have set up an ambitious experiment to follow the life histories of some of the world's oldest and tallest trees.

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23The crackdown on dissidents in Fiji is intensifying with the detention of the most senior female High Chief in the country and a leading figure from the ousted governing party.

24The World Health Organisation says Influenza A H1N1 'swine flu' has killed more than 700-people around the world since the outbreak began four months ago. There are now over 1000 laboratory confirmed cases world wide.

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26Expats living in Australia who are citizens 'in all but name' are being urged to seek citizenship to protect themselves from being kicked out. New Zealanders are the only citizens allowed to travel and stay in Australia under a special category visa, though this can be cancelled if one were to break the law.

27The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has expressed Washington's growing unease about reports of military links between North Korea and Myanmar also known as Burma.

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29The reigning regime in Iran and the opposition are locked in a deepening power struggle.

30An international court of arbitration is due to rule on a crucial question relating to Sudan's borders.

31Emergency legislation designed to clean-up British politics in the wake of the MPs' expenses scandal has now become law.

32More evidence has emerged of the massive gap between what rich countries need to do to prevent runaway global warming and their actual achievements in cutting emissions of greenhouse gases.