1Prisoners will banned from smoking from 1 July next year. Corrections Minister Judith Collins says the move is to protect staff and non-smoking prisoners from the dangers of second-hand smoke and reduce the risk of the Department being sued over health and safety.

2The President of the Corrections Association - Beven Hanlon - joins us to discuss the announcement that prisons are to become smokefree.

3A $3 million scheme to get Maori businesses exporting more is in limbo after being slammed in a hard hitting report Maori development ministry Te Puni Kokiri, and as a result the Tekau Plus Maori agribusiness project is destined for a complete overhaul.

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5Australia's new Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has ditched Kevin Rudd from cabinet in a revamped frontbench lineup announced this afternoon.

6The police have hit out at parents of young teenagers who don't seem to care about their children heading off to Ohakune's mardi gras festival at the weekend where they drink themselves senseless.

7The Air Force has been flying helicopters so low in parts of Wellington, they have caused houses to shake and residents to complain to noise control. But the Royal New Zealand Air Force says it is required by the government to practise flying at night over built-up areas and the exercise only takes place once a year.

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9May Wang, the woman fronting a Chinese bid to buy the Crafar family farms, is hoping a deal made with creditors of her former company, Dynasty Group, will be enough to avoid bankruptcy.

10The Minister of Education, Anne Tolley, faces a critical meeting with school principals this week about the national standards in reading, writing and maths.

11A decision not to charge two security guards over the death of an Aboriginal elder in a prison van in Western Australia has been greeted with anger and disbelief.

12Multi-millionaire businessman Colin Craig has joined the contest for the Auckland Super-City mayoralty.

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14Justice Bill Wilson, the Supreme Court judge fighting to stop an unprecedented investigation into his conduct, says the judicial watch dog, the Judicial Conduct Commissioner, has failed to specify exactly what he has done wrong.

15The world's most powerful countries have dealt yet another blow to the round of World Trade Organisation trade talks being held in Doha, saying it might be time just to do deals amongst themselves.

16A healthy population of giant tortoises has been re-established on one of the Galapagos islands after a non-native species threatened them with extinction.

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18The number of alcohol-related deaths investigated by the Coroner's Office has skyrocketed by more than 600 per cent.

19A Canterbury doctor who had a sexual relationship with a teenage patient has been found guilty of disgraceful conduct.

20Australia's new Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has announced a front bench reshuffle with no spot for her predecessor Kevin Rudd. Ms Gillard says that Mr Rudd would be welcome to take up a senior Cabinet position if Labour is re-elected. She has also reversed Australia's position on population growth.

21A public meeting about the future of the disused Carisbrook stadium is currently underway in Dunedin.

22Telecom's chairman, Wayne Boyd, says he will stick around until the government's ultra fast broadband plans are in place, which some analysts say could be another couple of years.

23Oil and gas exploration companies are defending the government's decision to give Brazilian energy company Petrobras drilling rights off East Cape. Maori and marine farmers are warning of the potential for an environmental disaster, saying a Gulf of Mexico-scale crisis cannot be disregarded. Several hundred Maori gathered yesterday on beaches from Ohope to Kaiti near Gisborne to protest aginst the decision.

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25News from the United Kingdom, including: dismay and relief at the defeat of the English football team by Germany in the World Cup; the emergency Budget and National Health Service funding; no rain at the 40th Glastonbury Festival;

26In Kyrgyzstan, voters have backed in a referendum to change the constitution and create Central Asia's first parliamentary democracy.

27Joseph McGrath, Western Australia's Director of Public Prosecutions, has defended the decision not to lay charges over the death of a 47-year old Aboriginal man while in custody in 2008.

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29Senior Western intelligence officials are convinced Al Qaeda's main base is now in Yemen.

30Porirua business Electron says it is proving impossible to replace one of its skilled workers, David Samuel, a Fijian who is fighting immigration services to stay in the country.

31Researchers in Iran say a simple blood test could accurately predict when a woman will reach the menopause.