1The Minister of Defence says he'll do what he can to save a hundred Air New Zealand engineering jobs which are the victims of massive delays with an overseas contract to upgrade airforce Hercules.

2Two police officers have been criticised by the Independent Police Conduct Authority which has found their actions in a chase through central Christchurch amounted to misconduct.

3There will be no limits on how much lobby groups and other third parties can spend on campaigns before an election under proposed changes to the electoral laws.

4Now to the Government announcement about next year's referendum on whether MMP should be retained as the country's electoral system.

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6A German man from Uganda, a Mexican chef and a Swiss stockbroker, all represented by an Irish lawyer, have been in the Christchurch District Court on charges of hunting and possessing a protected species of New Zealand gecko.

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8An independent audit of the Government-funded home insulation scheme has found widespread problems with shoddy workmanship.

9The Government is looking at introducing a variation of the ACT Party's school voucher system for the country's highest and lowest performing students.

10The families of a school group killed in a canyoning trip have had their first chance to formally question the guide who was with the children just before they died.

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12The Taliban's top military commander has been captured in Karachi, Pakistan, according to American government officials. They say it was a secret operation by Pakistani and US intelligence forces.

13A jury at the High Court in Napier has found a 23-year-old gang prospect Huli Ataria guilty of murdering a Central Hawke's Bay agricultural contractor. He stabbed Mark McCutcheon to death outside an Ongaonga pub in January last year.

14The Otago District Health Board is introducing hundreds more bowel cancer tests after a critical report which found some patients have endured long delays in being diagnosised.

15Artists hope they'll be better off under plans to restructure their main funding agency Creative New Zealand. The Government wants to merge its Arts Council and Maori and Pacific boards in to one.

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17The Minister of Defence says he'll do what he can to save a hundred Air New Zealand engineering jobs which are the victims of massive delays with an overseas contract to upgrade airforce Hercules.

18Clean up efforts are underway in Tonga after Cyclone Rene tore through the island nation flattening powerlines and ruining plantations.

19Local businesses in Lower Hutt next to the highly-polluted Waiwhetu Stream say contamination fears from the clean up are being exaggerated.

20A family feud has erupted in Japan with the Prime Minister and his younger brother - an opposition politician - in a public row over money. He's been accused of receiving money from their mother to unfairly further their political cause.

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22Lawyers for a Timorese-born Australian woman standing trial over a plot to assassinate East Timor's President say new evidence has come to light that further undermines the prosecution's case.

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24The Government is looking at introducing a variation of the ACT Party's school voucher system for the country's highest and lowest performing students.

25A Democrat senator in the United States has shocked his party by resigning. Evan Bye from Indiana says he's leaving because he's sick of the partisan bickering in Washington.

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27Police in Queensland are working with Interpol to investigate a website which was set up after the fatal stabbing of a twelve year old Brisbane schoolboy yesterday.

28Police in Dubai want to question eleven people with European passports in connection with the mysterious killing of a senior figure in the militant Palestinian group Hamas in a Dubai hotel room last month.