1Hockey New Zealand's Chief Executive Hilary Poole says it's possible the team may not go to India but at the moment the plan is in what she describes as a "holding pattern."

2During a feisty Question Time in Parliament this afternoon ministers were left scrambling as they tried to explain two key government policies. The Minister of Education failed to explain a significant part of the policy on national standards, and the Minister of Social Development was wrong-footed on the Whanau Ora policy.

3A group of frustrated South Canterbury farmers have told Transpower it has a week to come up with a compensation deal or the padlocks are going on the gates.

4A woman who drove into a pack of 20-cyclists on Auckland's Tamaki Drive has been disqualified from driving for six months and ordered to pay four thousand dollars in reparations. Jennifer Speakman has pleaded guilty to four charges of careless driving.

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6The boy charged with the murder of Liberty Templeman has told the High Court in Whangarei he accidentally pushed her over in a stream.

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8Energy experts in Auckland have been told of hydro dams in the South Island working in slow motion while new power plants are being built in the North island.

9The Real Estate Institute is blaming banks for a worsening slump in the rural property market.

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11A police cordon will remain in place at a Christchurch house tonight where the body of a baby has been discovered today. The police will not say if the case is suspicious, though they've been at the house all afternoon.

12The President of the United States Barack Obama has announced more than US $8-billion of government loan guarantees to build the first nuclear power plant in nearly three decades.

13A Bavarian headmaster is leading a backlash against the use of too much English in Germany. Train stations have been the focus of his worry.

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15The Black Sticks tour to India is on hold with Hockey New Zealand saying the team will not be travelling there until it has further assurances from the Indian government that the players will be absolutely safe.

16Intelligence analysts say the capture of a top Taleban leader is a major blow to the Afghan Taliban. Pakistan and American officials say the Taliban's second in command was arrested in the city of Karachi.

17The former Prime Minister, Helen Clark, has officially received the country's highest honour. Miss Clark was made a member of the Order of New Zealand in the New Years' Honours list.

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19A group of frustrated South Canterbury farmers have told Transpower it has a week to come up with a compensation deal or the padlocks are going on the gates.

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21The British and Irish governments say passports belonging to those accused of killing a top Hamas official in Dubai are fake.

22A New Zealand Red Cross worker who has arrived in Tonga to help with the clean up after Monday's tropical cyclone says there could soon be be a shortage of food.

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24Criminal gangs have been cashing in on the Haiti earthquake by seeking funds for bogus charities.

25The Taliban in denying any arrest has taken place, the White House is not commenting publicly but Pakistani and United States officials have confirmed that a joint operation in Afghanistan has captured the Taliban's top military commander.

26Pope Benedict has called the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland a heinous crime that wounded human dignity.