1In Southland a massive deluge is turning farmland into lakes, flooding roads and cutting emergency phonelines. 2-thousand Te Anau residents are unable to make landline or cellphone calls outside their region after a river broke a crucial Telecom cable.

2In Southland a massive deluge is turning farmland into lakes, flooding roads and cutting emergency phonelines. Derek Carston farms 22-hundred sheep in Mossburn. He's got five big paddocks under water and the Oreti River which is normally 6 to 7-metres wide now stretches across 300-metres.

3The families of the three servicemen killed in yesterday's helicopter crash near Wellington have been gathering at Ohakea Air Force Base today, travelling there from Auckland, Hawke's Bay and Christchurch.

4A former chief financial officer for Feltex Carpets is blaming accountants Ernst and Young for inaccurate financial statements that have landed company directors in court.

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6A $45-billion Euro rescue package for Greece may not be enough to avert another debt crisis. The shattered economy has been wreaking havoc on international markets.

7Farmland and roads are under water throughout Southland, as the Oreti River keeps rising. It's predicted it will reach the maximum level the flood protection equipment can handle.

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9The country's mayors are being offered a chance to sit at the cabinet committee table under a Labour-led Government. The announcment came in a speech by Phil Goff repoinding to the amalgamation of the existing Auckland councils in to the new Auckland Council, due to be complete by November.

10Taranaki Maori say they're being ignored as the Crown, district and regional councils and oil companies push ahead with energy projects.

11Up to ten people were taken to hospital and dozens treated for hyperventiltation as hysterical crowds of girls greeted the teen pop sensation Justin Bieber in Sydney.

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13India's cricket board has suspended the Indian Premier League's creator and chairman - and given him 15-days to explain himself.

14Three men from Auckland accused of having forged bank notes, have appeared in the Wellington District Court.

15The President of South Africa Jacob Zuma has revealed that he's HIV-negative.

16The Defence Force has suffered another loss, with a soldier killed in a crash with a fellow soldier outside the Linton Army base in Manawatu.

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18In Thailand, Eleven people including three police officers have been hurt in a grenade attack on the house of a former prime minister.

19The Minister of Defence Wayne Mapp says the families of the three servicemen who died yesterday in a helicopter crash are struggling to come to terms with the loss of their loved ones.

20Japan's Minister of Fisheries says his country isn't interested in cutting its whaling programme in the Antarctic in return for being allowed to resume commercial whaling in Japanese coastal waters.

21When the President of the United States Barack Obama announced a bi-partisan debt commission a senior Republican responded by labelling it a partisan exercise in imposing taxes and passing the buck.

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23The country's mayors are being offered a chance to sit at the cabinet committee table under a Labour-led Government. The announcment came in a speech by Phil Goff repoinding to the amalgamation of the existing Auckland councils in to the new Auckland Council, due to be complete by November.

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25Regional councils up and down the country say the government should provide more funding for the SuperGold card.

26A massive operation's underway in the Gulf of Mexico to stop oil leaking from a damaged well feeding a rig that sank off the coast of Louisiana last week.

27News from South America, including: In Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez has given the armed forces a huge 40-percent pay increase.

28The British government has apologised after an internal memo poking fun at the Pope was leaked.

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30The Southland District Health Board has received hundreds of submissions on a proposed extension and upgrading of Queenstown's public hospital.

31In Britain the leader of the Liberal Democrats has said he won't support Gordon Brown as Prime Minister if Labour comes third in the popular vote in next month's general election.