1An armed standoff at a Napier bus terminal that lasted for more than four hours has ended with the arrest of a man. The Armed Defenders Squad as well as members of the military swooped on the transport centre after there were suggestions the man was carrying home-made explosives.

2New Zealand is back in the black, having emerged out of its worst recession in three decades. While analysts predicted a fall in gross domestic product, the economy actually grew 0.1-percent in the June quarter.

3The Prime Minister says the gross domestic product figures are promising and should prompt the international credit agency Fitch to remove New Zealand from negative credit watch.

4A Superannuation Fund rebound has reignited debate on whether the Government was right to halt contributions.

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6Sydney has been blanketed by a choking dust storm which weather forecasters say is the worst to hit the state in nearly 70-years.

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8The deputy chair of the Maori Affairs select committee Hone Harawira has his sights set on the country's tobacco company bosses saying that he'd like to "lynch the bastards."

9The police say the extent of injuries to a woman shot and killed in Matamata this morning is making the job of formally identifying her difficult.

10Health authorities in Australia are a step closer to prosecuting the disgraced doctor Roman Hasil who fled New Zealand in 2006 after a series of botched sterilisations at Wanganui Hospital.

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12Old political foes John Key and Helen Clark have met in New York today over a couple of loaves of Vogel bread. The pair spend half-an-hour talking about climate change in her United Nations office, completely avoiding the topic of New Zealand Politics.

13The Labour Party says TVNZ has been forced to relinquish its rights to next year's Commonwealth Games in Delhi because of the government's demand for an increased dividend.

14Where the country's media is dominated by newspapers and television channels owned or controlled by the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his family. A new paper aimed at providing an alternative view from Berlusconi's media empire will be published from this week.

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16An armed standoff at a Napier bus terminal that lasted for more than four hours has ended with the arrest of a man who police say has mental health problems

17New Zealand's moved out of recession earlier than had been expected - thanks in part to an increase in exports to China. Figures out today show that the economy grew 0.1-percent in the June quarter.

18Ten Canterbury mayors are pushing for government intervention into the local regional council, on the eve of a vote that may topple its chairperson. The mayors have written to the Minister of Local Government, outlining what he says are serious concerns.

19Protective measures introduced just six years ago to ensure the wellbeing of international students as young as five years old are now being reviewed. A Ministry of Education discussion paper says revising the rules would allow schools to earn more money.

20Parliament's health select committee is distancing itself from accusations some doctors are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of men from prostate cancer. The accusation was made by the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

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23Brazil's called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the crisis in Honduras.

24News from China, including: trade and carbon commitments; not so lucky number;

25Today police in France cleared a squalid camp for immigrants near the port city of Calais that came to be known as the Jungle.

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27Auckland city bars and restaurants say a plan to force them to close at 11 o'clock would kill business and create havoc on the streets.

28The Employment Court has heard that the Corrections Department considered bringing in the military to help run prisons if officers were locked out in the dispute over double bunking.

29Thousands of social workers around the country are taking part in a day to celebrate their profession.