1Recent suicide research is drawing attention to a silent epidemic. Men who've recently gone through a relationship split are 11-times more likely than men who've not. It's one of the issues being raised by a world authority on suicide research, which says we're not doing enough to help those most at risk. What strategies are going to be the most effecting in dealing with what is no doubt still a huge issue for New Zealand?

2The country's scientific research organisations are potentially heading toward their largest restructure in decades. A major review of Crown Research Institutes has found that their objectives are unclear; their lines of accountability too complicated; and their funding too short term. The Crown Research Institutes received 500-million each year; they include AgResearch, the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) and Environmental Science and Research (ESR.) What changes are the Government likely to make, and what difference will it make to New Zealand's overall economic performance?

3News from the United Kingdom, including: Lord Ashcroft's tax payments;