1The dream is over for the All Whites and Latin American teams now dominate the football World Cup. Kathryn Ryan talks football with Tim Vickery, South American football expert who writes for World Soccer magazine and is a BBC Sports correspondent.

2Under the '20 hours free scheme', early childhood centres with 100 per cent trained teachers have been fully funded. The government announced in last month's budget, however, that funding will be cut to cover only 80 per cent of fully trained teachers. A new survey of more than 500 centres by the Early Childhood Council shows that around a quarter are looking at pulling out of 20 hours free scheme, or considering other ways to make ends meet.

3In 1998 the Hennah family moved from Auckland to Otira, a tiny one-pub West Coast town in the Southern Alps, with the intention of revitalising a little piece of New Zealand history. They are now keen to sell the Otira hotel, the fire station, the town hall and 18 houses.

4News from Asia, including: huge interest in the performance of Japan and South Korea in the football World Cup; live broadcasting of football games in North Korea; controversy surrounding the new Singapore casino; vandalism laws and caning in Singapore.

5Feature guest: Neville Jordan is a philanthropic businessman with a passion for science and technology. He is the only New Zealander to list a company on the NASDAQ technology exchange. He has led a review of Crown Research Institutes and is currently a venture capitalist.

6The week that was, including: the football World Cup; All Whites fans in Vanuatu; panda diplomacy at Wellington zoo; Russel Norman; unusual zookeeping practices in China; the proposal to sell cigarettes in adult novelty shops; ministerial credit cards; schoolgirl mobs and the cost of police protection for Justin Bieber during his New Zealand visit; breath testing of parents on the sports sideline at Christ's College;