1In Chile the government has admitted it made a fatal mistake in initially playing down the risk of a tsunami from Saturday's massive quake, as reports now emerge of giant waves drowning people in their beds and sweeping away homes.

2The Prime Minister John Key has revealed SAS troops came under fire in Kabul last Friday. He told today's post-cabinet press conference the soldiers were responding to a car bombing in the Afghan captial.

3The Air Force's aerobatic flying squad, the Red Checkers, has been grounded after two planes touched during a training flight this morning.

4There's been a dramatic increase in the numbers of people visiting New Zealand.

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6A new report says the large gap in trans-Tasman wages will widen this year. It says as a result the exodus to Australia, which eased during the recession, could grow again.

7The police are rejecting suggestions of a fat blue line. It has been revealed that 1500 officers around the country have not passed a bi-annual fitness test.

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9Some of Auckland's mayors have warned of dire consequences if last minute changes are not made to legislation setting up the regionwide Auckland Council.

10There's no sign of a bipartisan deal on health reform in the United States despite President Barak Obama's televised debate in Washington.

11The Winter Olympics have just wrapped up in Vancouver with the closing ceremony ending a short while ago.

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13Good news for oyster lovers, a survey of the Foveaux Strait oyster beds suggests numbers are increasing, despite the presence of a killer disease.

14There's a warning the economic recovery is likely to run out of steam next year. The NZIER now says the view for 2011 is more pesimistic, and is picking that growth will be about half of what other economists have been forecasting.

15The wife of liquor store owner Navtej Singh has been in court for the first time at the trial of the men accused of his murder in June 2008.

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17In Chile the government has admitted it made a fatal mistake in initially playing down the risk of a tsunami from Saturday's massive quake, as reports now emerge of giant waves drowning people in their beds and sweeping away homes.

18A Cook Island's MP is stranded after the airforce decided to postpone it's second delivery of aid to a storm hammered atoll.

19Organisers of a new midwifery course on the West Coast are having to limit numbers becaue there aren't enough pregnant women.

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21The head of new Wellington police team set up to fight child abuse says she expects to see an increase in the number of cases being reported.

22Storms have left a trail of devastation in Europe as they moved from Portugal and Spain to France, Belgium and Germany.

23Many people go on working past retirement age, but in the small town of Vails Gate in upstate New York, Antonio Mancinelli is a trail blazer.

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25A Wellington professor who has worked in Chile and spent 15-years studying the country says the cost of the clean up after the weekend's 8.8-magnitude earthquake will be massive and could take up to year.

26Iraqi Christians have been out on the streets of Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul protesting against what they say is inadequate security.

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28With just over a month to go before Sudan is due to hold its first multi-party general election for 24-years optimism is growing that voting will actually go ahead.

29In Britain the leader of the Conservative party David Cameron has been rallying party activists ahead of a General Election expected by June.