1A 71-year-old grandmother has been jailed for two-years and two-months for killing a cyclist while she was driving drunk on State Highway One near Otaki. Alison Downer was sentenced in the Palmerston North District Court on one charge of driving with excess breath alcohol causing the death of Frank van Kampen.

2A High Court jury has been told that the man who shot a south Auckland liquor store owner lined up his victim and pulled the trigger in a calm and deliberate way. Seven men are standing trial for the murder of Navtesh Singh in 2008.

3The Labour party says Telecom may outsource up to 15-hundred high tech jobs to companies overseas.

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5The SPCA is accusing Fonterra of sullying New Zealand's international clean, green reputation by expanding its use of intensive indoor dairy farming in China. In the past the dairy cooperative the giant has criticised plans for high intensity farming in the Canterbury region.

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7Maori who have struggled to get a mortgage to build houses on ancestral land have been thrown a lifeline by the Government and KiwiBank. The Minister of Housing today announced the new Kainga Whenua scheme in partnership with KiwiBank.

8The former chief executive of the Immigration Service Mary Anne Thompson has pleaded guilty to using a document with intent to defraud. The charge relates to a CV Thompson used to apply for high level positions within the public service.

9It's being reported in the United States that prosecutors plan to charge Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray with manslaughter.

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11The police say a mentally ill man, Cornelius Klein, charged over fatal 8-car pile up in Auckland yesterday deliberately rammed a police car because he was angry the officers had overtaken him.

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13A 71-year-old grandmother has been jailed for two-years and two-months for killing a cyclist while she was driving drunk on State Highway One near Otaki. Alison Downer was sentenced in the Palmerston North District Court on one charge of driving with excess breath alcohol causing the death of Frank van Kampen.

14The United Nations has warned of a potentially volatile security situation in Haiti after an armed group of men attacked a food convoy. There are also reports of riots and looting inside the camps that were set up to house survivors.

15Senior hospital doctors and GPs have made what they say is an historic agreement to work closely together to improve patient care.

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17A British medical journal has retracted a controversial paper that claimed the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, MMR, could be linked to autism.

18Shareholders of the British chocolate maker, Cadbury, have voted to accept an US $18-billion takeover bid by the American food giant, Kraft.

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20The former British prime minister Tony Blair has been accused of running a dishonest, dysfunctional government that played to the Americans at a time of war.

21The Queensland Police Force is in damage control over allegations made in The Courier Mail newspaper that link it to organised crime.

22The Government is asking the public what it thinks should happen to special education. More than $450-million a year is spent on special education programmes in schools and over the next four years the Government has committed an additional $51-million for students with the highest needs.

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24The United States is moving a step closer to ditching its ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military. The country's most senior military officer has said he can no longer support a policy that asks young men and women to lie about who they are.

25The White House says President Obama intends to meet the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama despite China's objections.