1Just six months ago, Kevin Rudd was riding high in the polls and for a while was one of Australia's most popular Prime Ministers. Today, he tearfully announced his resignation after the Labour party turned against him, convinced Rudd's plummetting popularity would have spelled defeat in the upcoming election. His former deputy, Julia Gillard, is now the country's first woman Prime Minister.

2Prime Minister John Key spoke with Julia Gillard little more than an hour after Kevin Rudd resigned, and says he looks forward to working with Ms Gillard and he is confident the relationship between New Zealand and Australia will remain strong.

3Auckland's new super city mayor will be paid a salary of $240,000 - about $80,000 more than the current City Mayor. Manukau City Mayor Len Brown discusses this, and fields questions concerning his credit card expenses.

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5Nick Smith, Minister for the Accident Compensation Corporation, is reporting a huge turnaround in its performance, telling a select committee that the corporation is set to make a two billion dollar surplus this year.

6Football fans are counting down to the All Whites' match against Paraguay at the World Cup in South Africa.

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8Australia has a new Prime Minister after Labour ousted Kevin Rudd, handing the leadership to his former deputy Julia Gillard. The speed of the move has stunned observers. Mr Rudd has become the shortest-serving Australian Prime Minister since 1972.

9Northland drug dealer Kyle Skerten has been found guilty of the manslaughter of his 16-month-old stepson, Riley Osborne.

10The swift decision to sack General Stanley McChrystal from his command in Afghanistan has been met with support from both sides of United States politics.

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12Hamilton District Court Judge Phillip Connell has described the actions of former All Black Sione Lauaki, who assaulted a man in a city bar in March, as gormless.

13Auckland's new super city mayor will be paid a salary of $240,000.

14A high-speed train passing through a Spanish railway station has struck a group of people crossing the tracks, killing at least 12.

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16Just six months ago, Kevin Rudd was riding high in the polls and for a while was one of Australia's most popular Prime Ministers. Today, Labour's leader sobbed as he announced his resignation. What do Australian voters think of their new Prime Minister?

17The Green Party says a court injunction to stop the Japanese whaling programme is the only option now the diplomatic process has failed. The International Whaling Commission meeting in Morocco has given up its attempts to break a 24-year deadlock between whaling countries and their opponents about hunting in Antarctic waters.

18A new star system for roads has rated 90 percent of New Zealand's highways and found, we have no 5 star roads, and only five percent make four stars.

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20New figures show the pace of the economic recovery faltered slightly in the first three months of this year due to a slowdown in the production of goods

21More now on the resignation of the United State's top commander in Afghanistan over his explosive comments made to Rolling Stone magazine.

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23Who were the factional strongmen behind the Australian leadership coup which saw Julia Gillard replace Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister?

24They defied the odds by holding Slovakia and then defending Football World Cup champions Italy to a draw, but will success against Paraguay be a bridge too far for the All Whites?

25Governments around the world are inflicting some serious austerity measures on their citizens - and France is no exception. The retirement age is to be raised from 60 to 62 over the next 8 years to reduce pension costs and bring public borrowing down, but polls show there will be serious opposition.

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27A national report on Australia's health shows there has been a drop in smoking, people are living longer and there has been a drop in deaths from cardiovascular disease. Cancer rates, however, are up.

28The row between Russia and Belarus about allegedly unpaid gas bills is stepping up a gear, with Belarus threatening to stop the flow of Russian gas through its pipelines to Europe.

29The Chinese Government has invested a quarter of a million dollars into at least six New Zealand schools so students can learn Mandarin. The schools, including Parnell District School and Rotorua Boys' High, are among 300 worldwide taking part in the programme managed by the Confucius Institute.

30A record sale at Christies auction house in London indicates the top end of the fine art market is resisting the economic downturn.