1Three Greenpeace activists who boarded a ship off the Tauranga port have now been arrested and removed - 12 of their group are still on board negotiating with police. They're protesting against the use of palm kernel animal feed on Fonterra dairy farms.

2The police in Christchurch are working with the Kenyan consulate in Australia as they try to track down a man wanted in connection with the death of a man and the violent attack on a woman in the city.

3The Prime Minister is refusing to say his deputy Bill English acted morally by claiming a ministerial housing allowance for a home owned by the English family trust. Mr. English has paid back the money, though Labour are continuing to ask questions.

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5The All Black coaches have made significant changes to their side following a third straight loss to the Springboks for Saturday's final tri-nations match against Australia in Wellington.

6The Government is pushing ahead with its original plan to get ultra-fast broadband to three quarters of New Zealanders within the next decade. It's rejected a Telecom proposal which would have seen less coverage and now new money for fibre. The government is to establish Crown Fibre Holdings.

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8Three Greenpeace activists who boarded a ship off the Tauranga port have now been arrested and removed - 12 of their group are still on board negotiating with police. They're protesting against the use of palm kernel animal feed on Fonterra dairy farms.

9"A doco that has you falling in love with two of the crazier people you've never met." That's how John Andersen's described the Topp Twins' new documentary in Variety magazine.

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11It's been described as a revolutionary new trap for stoats which could lead to the pest's total eradication. The Department of Conservation will be trialling the self-resetting trap in the Rimutaka Ranges from next week.

12The widow of Kelly Tarlton, Rosemary Tarlton says if coins stolen from Kelly Tarlton's Tui Shipwreck Museum almost ten years ago are recovered she would put them in display again.

13Thousands of tertiary students had their classes disrupted today by 24-hour strike action by tutors. More than 900-staff from North Island polytechnics took part.

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15The Government is being pressured by Labour over how much its revised plan for the Emissions Trading Scheme will cost taxpayers. The good-faith negoations between the two largest parties came to a halt this week after the government announced it had gained support for the scheme from the Maori Party to see the legislation to select committee.

16Nissan Silvia owners would be wise to beef up their car security with the model topping AA Insurance's list of the ten most frequently stolen cars. The list is based on theft claims for the previous year.

17The Labour Party says the decision not to include separate Maori seats on Auckland's 'super city' will cost the Government dearly at the next election. Parliament is sitting under urgency for the second day to pass the Auckland Governance legislation.

18A California couple accused of abducting 11 year-old Jaycee Lee and holding her for 18 years are now also being investigated over the disappearance of two more young girls.

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20A summit on children and the recession organised by group Every Child Counts has been told the worst is yet to come - despite an apparent lift in economic activity.

21America's top military officer Admiral Michael Mullen has told a Senate Armed Services Committee that more U.S. troops are needed to win the war in Afghanistan.

22British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has acknowledged he will soon need to cut public spending to balance the books. In a major speech to British union representatives he said his government was not going to cut vital public services.

23$50-thousand is being offered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry into research about whether tail docking is cruel to puppies.

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25About a third of the 100 strong workforce at a cheese producer Open Country Dairy near Matamata have gone on strike, following a break down in negotiations over a collective contract. The Dairy Workers' Union says the action will last 8-days; they will then be locked out for 16-weeks.

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27The head of the United Nations Ban ki-Moon has condemned attacks committed during Israel's Gaza offensive late last year. It follows a long waited for report from the U.N. following Israel's operations in December and January.

28Housing New Zealand has returned to court to try and resolve a deadlock with stubborn tenants from a Mongrel Mob enclave in Lower Hutt.

29The French Senate's confirmed the parliamentary immunity of French Polynesia's Gaston Flosse, rejecting the latest approach by judges and the French justice ministry.