1A 13-year-old Invercargill boy is being held in a secure Child Youth and Family facility after admitting he critically injured a crying baby girl when he picked her up and shook her.

2The Government has rejected a key part of the Maori Party's flagship Whanau Ora policy saying the billion dollar plan to help families with multiple problems will not be run by an independent trust.

3Kaitaia's fire chief has hit out at Telecom's XT network saying it's simply not good enough for the emergency service to use.

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5The Goverment says farmers in the upper North Island face a grim winter if they don't get rain soon. Northland is already in the grip of drought, and now regions in rural south Auckland, the Waikato and Rodney have been declared as been partially in drought.

6TV3's breakfast shows have been canned after waking up on the wrong side of the ratings. After 2.5-years, Sunrise and ASB Business will no longer be broadcast.

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8The Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia has been appointed as the Minister for the Whanau Ora Fund - a new billion dollar scheme.

9The 4-month mystery surrounding the disappearance of a Hamilton grandmother has been solved with the identification of a body pulled out of the Waikato River at Meremere on Saturday.

10Grim video footage has emerged that was recorded as the Marriott Hotel suicide bomber closed in on his victims in Jakarta last year.

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12Claims made about the Waihopai monitoring station by three peace activists have been formally rebutted by the organisation itself.

13The Sri Lankan Government is warning Australia it could become a breeding ground for separatists if more Tamil asylum seekers are taken in.

14After a day of violent protest that has left up to a hundred dead, it is not clear who is in charge in Kyrgyzstan.

15The giant chess pieces stolen from Christchurch's Cathedral Square have been returned, plus one extra piece stolen six years ago.

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17The Maori Party co-leader, Tariana Turia, has been appointed as the Whanau Ora Minister to oversee the implementation of the party's flagship policy.

18Telecom's problem-plagued XT mobile network has been hit by another fault today, with services north of the Bombay Hills through to Northland down for about four hours.

19Pounamu carvers are hiding their snowflake greenstone after police seized almost two tonnes of it from two Hokitika stores last week.

20Campaigning is already underway ahead of the United Kingdom General Elections next month. One of the controversial plans in the Labour Party's manifesto is a proposal to abolish The House of Lords and replace it with an elected Upper House.

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22Researchers have found that moderate exercise during pregnancy means women have lighter babies.

23Scientists say that Japanese people have a natural advantage when it comes to digesting sushi.

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25After a day of violent protest that has left up to a hundred dead, it is not clear who is in charge in Kyrgyzstan.

26Scientists at Queensland's University of Technology are looking at whether a super high factor sunscreen is needed to help fight melanoma.

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28A small town in the United States; Selma, Alabama is making a personal appeal for help to Barack Obama.

29A report claims a Chinese based network of cyber spies have been stealing classified documents from the Indian government as well as the United Nations and a United States embassy.