1Auckland's embattled new community lab testing service has dumped its chief executive. Labtests Australian company's owner Healthscope announced this afternoon its chief pathologist is to replace Ulf Lindskog who is returning to Melbourne.

2The government has backed down on proposed boundary changes to the Auckland region and will leave them as they are now. Cabinet decided against the changes leaving the Rodney District as part of the new Auckland Council. John Key has also been in discussion with the Maori Party around an amended Emissions Trading Scheme.

3The government has backed down on proposed boundary changes to the Auckland region and will leave them as they are now. The Rodney District Mayor Penny Webster is delighted with today's decision to remain part of Auckland's new super city.

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6The mother of a Tokoroa teenager seriously injured in what the police say was a deliberate hit and run says her son was left with tyre marks on his back. An 18-year-old has appeared in court over the attempted murder of Seth Tera.

7The National Party and the Maori Party have hammered out a deal over the Emissions Trading Scheme, and will have legislation ready to introduce to Parliament next week. The entry of agriculture in to the scheme will be delayed by two years, to 2015.

8In what's been a massive day at the US Tennis Open, Roger Federer has secured a place in the men's final, while the unseeded Belgian Kim Clijsters has taken out the women's crown.

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10In a rare move in Hong Kong, a pro-Beijing heavyweight has promised to take up the case of Chinese police brutality in Xinjiang, against journalists covering unrest there. The journalists have claimed to be punched and kicked before being tied up and detained.

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12Auckland's embattled new community lab testing service has dumped its chief executive. Labtests Australian company's owner Healthscope announced this afternoon its chief pathologist is to replace Ulf Lindskog who is returning to Melbourne.

13The government has backed down on proposed boundary changes to the Auckland region and will leave them as they are now. Cabinet decided against the changes leaving the Rodney District as part of the new Auckland Council.

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15The White House has dismissed suggestions that race has triggered some of the intense opposition to United States President Barack Obama's policies. Debate has come after Obama's healthcare reform address to Congress, during which a Republican senator called him a liar.

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17The New Zealand Retailers' Association say July's dip in sales figures could have been worse.

18It was New Zealand's equivalent of a lion and could snatch and carry off children - but the giant Haast's eagle did not have a brain to match its enormous size.

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20Russia has agreed to lend Venezuela more than USD $2-billion to buy tanks and anti-aircraft missiles in a deal that has some South American leaders and the United States on edge over the possibility of a regional arms race.

21Like Labour leader Phil Goff, Australia's opposition leader has been struggling in the polls. A new AC Nielson poll has shown he's less popular now than when he became opposition leader a year ago.

22Illegal immigration is becoming a major problem in The Bahamas.

23The leader of the British trades union movement has waded into a debate about public sector spending, warning a violent protest like those of the 1980s.