1All eight men found guilty of conspiring to murder Fiji Army Commander Frank Bainimarama have today received jail terms. The sentences range from seven years to three years.

2The Minister of Finance has no plans to loosen the purse strings, despite an improvement in the latest set of accounts. Bill English is still promising a tough Budget despite criticism from his opponents that he's exaggurated a downturn in the Crown's finances.

3The mother of Auckland teenager Halatau Naitoko mistakenly killed by police in a high speed chase has made an emotional plea in court saying she can't trust the police to keep her family safe.

4Surgeons are demanding changes to a plan to introduce a new kind of health worker into public hospitals.

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6The town of St. George in southern Queensland is preparing for what's being tipped as the area's worst flood in more than 120-years, with the entire population on standby to evacuate.

7Regional mayors say getting rid of some of the country's railway lines will lead to increased congestion on roads.

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9There's shock in a North Melbourne suburb after a three year old Indian boy disappeared from a house yesterday afternoon and turned up dead by nightfall.

10The chief executive of the Whanganui District Health Board has admitted she gave wrong information about a radiologist's workload; information which prompted questions over patient safety.

11The completion of Queenstown's ambitious $2-billion Kawarau Falls development nows looks shaky after the company building the final two stages of the complex was placed into receivership.

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13In the first ruling of its kind in the world, an Australian Court has concluded that taking the anti-arthritis drug Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attack and it wasn't fit to be used for the relief of arthritic pain.

14The American arms giant, Lockheed Martin, says it will try to re-employ New Zealand army support workers when it takes over a $145-million logistics contract in June.

15The veteran shearer who has taken out the title for those aged 65 and over at the Golden Shears is putting his win down to clean living and a happy marriage.

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17Thousands of Iraqi refugees are expected to cast their ballots in the crucial Iraq election already marred by violence.

18Iraqi prime minister says its possible United States forces may be asked to stay in Iraq longer than planned.

19Two Pentagon security officers have been wounded by a gunman shooting at them from themain entrance to the United States' Defence Department headquarters.

20The Government says it's confident the Waikato Expressway, a four lane road linking Auckland to Cambridge, will be completed on time by 2020.

21The Green Party co-leader has spent part of the summer on a Dirty Rivers Rafting Tour, in which he has been taking a first-hand look at the state of New Zealand's waterways.

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23Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe who has ruled since independence in 1980 has said he'll consider running for re-election.

24The most comprehensive study carried out to date confirms that dinosaurs were wiped out by a giant asteroid.

25A group of pro-life Democrats in the United States House of Representative say they are prepared to derail the passage of health care legislation over the issue of abortion.

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27Focus on Politics: Auditor-General, Lyn Provost, has announced she will investigate the ministerial credit card spending of the former minister Phil Heatley. She says that it is still possible spending by other ministers will come under investigation.

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29The Australian Foreign Minister Steven Smith, who's on a visit to India, says people there are finally getting the message that every effort is being made to protect international students and their families living in Australia.