1The number of reported child abuse cases is predicted to hit an all time high of 125,000 this year. Child, Youth and Family says that between 2005 and 2009, abuse notifications jumped 119 per cent but this year's increase is expected to be the peak.

2The Ministry of Health has announced that former sawmill workers who have been exposed to chemicals like PCP which can cause cancer are now entitled to a free visit to the doctor once a year. Sawmill workers have been battling for thirty year for some kind of recognition of the health risks of their profession, and some remain unhappy.

3Scathing remarks to Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings about his political masters could spell the end for the his tenure as top United States commander in Afghanistan. General Stanley McChrystal has been ordered back to Washington to explain his comments to President Barack Obama.

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6The gap between what the country spends overseas and what it earns is at its lowest level in more than two decades, but the year-long improvement in the current account deficit could be at an end.

7The jury in a Whangarei murder trial is now weighing up whether toddler Riley Osborne died from severe head injuries because he fell out of his cot or because his step father, Kyle Skerten, hit him.

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9BNZ says a new device could save millions of dollars being stolen from eftpos and credit cards.

10In Jamaica the accused drug lord and wanted fugitive Christopher "Dudus" Coke has been arrested by police on the outskirts of Kingston.

11Wellington Zoo could be the new home for two endangered Giant Chinese Panda. The process of bringing pandas to foreign countries is understood to be a diplomacy arrangement with the Chinese government, and Prime Minister John Key wants to talk more about the pandas when he is in Beijing next week.

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13The number of reported child abuse cases is predicted to hit an all time high of 125,000 this year. Child, Youth and Family says that between 2005 and 2009, abuse notifications jumped 119 per cent but this year's increase is expected to be the peak.

14The top United States commander in Afghanistan is being hauled back to Washington for a face-to-face with President Barack Obama, over scathing remarks published in a Rolling Stone article. General Stanley McChrystal has apologised profusely and United States officials he will offer his resignation.

15Hopes the International Whaling Commission meeting in Morocco would break through a 24-year impasse are fading with countries on both sides refusing to budge.

16In another coup for the All Whites, a new survey shows New Zealanders are more interested in them than the All Blacks, although rugby is still rated as the most preferred sport in general.

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18The Carbon Challenge', a new book on emissions trading by Simon Terry and Geoff Bertram, claims that the National government's emissions trading scheme means taxpayers could be up for a bill of one to five billion dollars, and that the scheme does not go far enough in reducing emissions.

19The locally-produced feature film "Boy" has been illegally uploaded to the internet, potentially damaging its overseas and DVD releases and bringing the local film industry under threat.

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21The Primary Teachers' Union says it is not too late to trial the government's national standards in reading, writing and maths.

22Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes after a river burst its banks in southern China.

23The White House is scrambling to resurrect a moratorium on deepwater oil drilling after a judge blocked an earlier freeze, saying it would cause irreparable economic harm.

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25Rohmat Puji Prabowo has just been jailed for seven and a half years for his role in the suicide bomb attacks on the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta last year which killed seven people including New Zealander Timothy Mackay. However evidence is emerging of Indonesia's failure to rehabilitate people convicted of supporting terrorists.

27The Russian government is pushing a bill through parliament which critics say would give the country's main intelligence agency, the FSB, powers similar to those once held by the KGB.