1Air New Zealand is once again flying to London after days stranded on the ground because of Iceland's erupting volcano.

2The Government has come under pressure this afternoon to define exactly what effect the United Nations Declaration on Indigenous Rights might have. National says the declaration adopted yesterday will have no impact on New Zealand law, though its support partners disagree.

3Minister of Transport Steven Joyce has warned that rail users including regional councils in Auckland and Wellington have to start paying a fair price for the service if KiwiRail is to survive.

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5A peace group is being accused of not respecting war veterans and trying to profit off the RSA's red poppy donations by selling white peace poppies the day before the red poppy annual appeal.

6The community of Tamahere, five-kilometres south of Hamilton has been officially thanked for the help it gave in saving the lives of fire fighters caught up in the Icepak Coolstore explosion, just over two years ago.

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8Minister of Defence Wayne Mapp has now backed off suggestions the government could take a stake in the Air New Zealand subsidiary SafeAir in a bid to save 92-jobs and finish a multi-million dollar project to upgrade the air force Hercules.

9Official sellers of corporate tickets for the Rugby World Cup say companies are being duped into buying packages from unofficial sellers despite warnings several months ago.

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11A key American trade appointment is being hailed as a big development in the stalled Doha round of world trade talks.

12A Central Otago farmer says the region should have been declared a drought zone months ago.

13The staff at Wellington's Botanic Gardens are fed up with finding scattered human ashes at the Lady Norwood Rose Garden and says the ashes are damaging the flowers.

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15Planes are once again in the air over Europe after an unprecedented lock down of international flights for nearly a week because of Iceland's erupting volcano.

16Legal experts say the real impact of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is very uncertain.

17Workers facing lay-offs at the Air New Zealand subsidiary SafeAir near Blenheim are being told not to get their hopes up following Government comments today.

18What's in the word 'oh'? A lot apparently if you're a patient talking to a GP.

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20Forest and Bird says it has papers showing the Government had longstanding plans to get rid of Environment Canterbury in order to fast-track large-scale irrigation.

21Google says it always tries to handle people's personal information carefully, despite heavy criticism from a group of privacy officials in several countries.

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23The International Monetary Fund has issued a warning about increasing levels of government debt in developed countries.

24A company that advertised text trivial quiz competitions on TV hooking up unwitting contestants to a regular text message service they had to pay for has been fined $125-thousand.

25The shortlist for the Orange Prize for fiction, which honours women writers has been announced.

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27The Manawatu-Whanganui Regional Council is denying the Manawatu River is one of the most polluted in the western world.

28To Australia now where Tony Abbott says the Coalition will consider a policy that would deny the dole to people under 30.

29After more than eight years at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American military's facing a mounting problem with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.