1Two-hundred jobs are to go at Telecom New Zealand, after it slashed its earnings forecast for the next three years by tens of millions of dollars.

2Two former cabinet ministers along with two other directors of the failed company Lombard Finance and Investments are facing criminal charges for misleading investors.

3Convoys carrying food, tents and rescuers are rumbling into China's Qinghai province, following yesterday's 6.9-magnitude earthquake.

4Drug abuse, death threats and extortion have been found to have been at the centre of a the fatal shooting of a Whangarei woman by police.

5Environmentalists say the prosecution of a mining company for polluting a West Coast stream proves the folly of the Government's plan to open up more conservation land for mining.

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7The contest for political control of Auckland's new Auckland Council has begun with the centre-right Citizens and Rate-payers naming most of its candidates.

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9The Labour Party leader, Phil Goff, is criticising the Prime Minister for failing to take a leadership role at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington this week - saying he dropped the ball.

10About 250-patients have been taken off the list for ultrasounds and sent back to their GPs as Whanganui hospital struggles to cope with demand.

11New Zealand has a culture of work place bullying, with reported levels amongst the worst in the world.

12Scientists at Newcastle University in northern England have announced that they've successfully created embryos containing DNA from three people, a man and two women.

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14A resurgence in manufacturing activity has yet to flow through to more jobs in the sector.

15Road safety campaigners are worried lots of fifteen year olds will rush to get their drivers licenses, before the age is raised to 16.

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17Thousands of rescuers are heading into the Chinese province of Qinghai where the death toll has risen to 617 following yesterday's 6.9 magnitude earthquake.

18The day after the United States President wound up his nuclear security summit, the Pentagon has delivered a stark warning about Iran's nuclear ambitions.

19Maori in Hawke's Bay say the Government's proposal that no one can or should own the foreshore or seabed, is totally unacceptable and slightly deceitful.

20One of the biggest reasons children aren't immunised in this country is because parents are scared.

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22Auckland train operators are cracking down on ticket dodgers who get a free ride.

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24Scientists working on the world's biggest geological mapping project are hoping to be able to help reduce the damage caused by natural disasters.

25The Vatican has sought to clarify comments from its most senior Cardinal who said homosexuality, not celibacy, was to blame for child abuse in the Catholic church.

26The United States' President Barak Obama and his Treasury Secretary Ben Bernanke have come out firing over the need for sweeping financial regulation to avoid a repeat of the financial crisis.

27The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown he should have been tougher on the banks during his tenure as Chancellor.

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29Workplace bullying in New Zealand is rife according to new research - with this country ranking amongst the worst in the world.

30The Greek parliament's passed what the Prime Minister calls a revolutionary law designed to crack down on tax evasion.