1It is being called the most significant day ever for the country's biggest exporter with dairy farmers who hold shares in Fonterra voting overwhelmingly for a proposal that will allow them to trade their shares with each other.

2Motorists can expect to pay more for their petrol from tomorrow but oil companies will not say by how much. In theory the emissions trading scheme, which takes effect at midnight tonight, could add 3 to 4 cents a litre to the cost of fuel.

3Beryl Wride, the mother of New Zealander Jeremy Cook who died in the Air New Zealand Airbus crash off the French coast at Perpignon, says she feels no anger towards the foreign pilots who were to blame.

4Business News

5Figures released under the Official Information Act show that the number of police charged with assault has more than doubled, with 14 officers going through the courts last year compared to just 6 and five in the two years before that.

6The Prime Minister has revealed it was during his visit to Afghanistan last month that he decided to reject a request from Australia to take part in a joint Anzac force in Uruzgan province.

75:30pm News

8A 13 year old Hastings girl is in hospital with a badly broken leg after being run over by a car during a brawl where dozens of youths fought each other with weapons including machetes and golf clubs.

9Labour Party leader Phil Goff and Prime Minister John Key have gone head to head in Parliament as the opposition tries to ramp up its campaign over the spiralling cost of living. New Zealanders face increased prices for power and petrol from tomorrow under the next phase of the emissions trading scheme. They will also be hit by hikes in vehicle registration and local body rates.

10General David Petraeus, the United States general in charge of international forces in Afghanistan, has tried to reassure an anxious United States Congress that NATO-led troops are making headway in the country.

11More than half a million people have turned out for the inauguration of new Philippine President Benigno Aquino III.

12Representatives from tobacco company Philip Morris clashed with MPs over plans to restrict smoking when they appeared today before the Maori Affairs select committee inquiring into the health effects of smoking.

13Waatea News

14A defence lawyer at the trial of the five directors of failed company Feltex Carpets Ltd says they knew its financial statements would be under huge scrutiny, and had no incentive to deliberately mislead investors.

15At a hearing of the Law and Order select committee today, the Law Society submitted that a bill removing voting rights for prisoners is irrational, discriminatory and unfair.

16State media in Burma have reported the capture of a rare white elephant, traditionally viewed in south-east Asia as a symbol of good fortune and power.

176:00pm News

18It is being called the most significant day ever for the country's biggest exporter with dairy farmers who hold shares in Fonterra voting overwhelmingly for a proposal that will allow them to trade their shares with each other.

19After seven years of wrangling, farmers and recreational users have come to an agreement over access to parts of the countryside and coastline. The Walking Access Commission has released the final version of its guidelines for the public and landowners for walking access.

20Parliament's library has withdrawn a research paper about the national standards in reading, writing and maths today, after a reported complaint from Minister of Education Anne Tolley that the paper was biased and unprofessional.

21The troubled rural services company, Allied Farmers, is refusing to pay five million dollars it owes to Hanover Finance, and it is considering legal action against some of Hanover's directors and executives.

22In less than 24 hours, Jayant Patel, the first doctor to be convicted of manslaughter in Australia in more than 150 years, will be sentenced. Despite forthcoming reforms to doctors' registration and newly imposed legal obligations for them to report on any substandard clinical practices of other doctors, many health care workers fear a repeat of this saga.

23Google is changing the way its website works in China as the battle over censorship continues.

246:30pm News

25A group of 14 prominent New Zealanders which includes former Governors-General, church leaders and sports people is putting pressure on the government to raise the cost of alcohol and put the drinking age up to 20. As the government forms its response to the Law Commission's alcohol reform report released in April this year, the group is also pushing it to consider restricting marketing of alcohol and harsher penalties for convicted drink drivers.

26Police hunting the killer of 74-year old Wellington man Donald Alfred Stewart, who was found dead in a central Hamilton street early on Sunday morning, are focusing their attention on the movements of his car.

27The United States commander in charge of international forces in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, says he wants Afghan troops to replace Western soldiers stationed there.

28Waatea News

29The West African nation of Niger is facing drought and severe food shortages, with nearly 20 per cent of children under five suffering from malnutrition.

30Pacific people are among the thousands who have taken to the streets against a controversial immigration law that will be introduced in the state of Arizona at the end of next month. The law allows police to question anyone they suspect of being in the United States illegally.

31Rough weather whipped up by the season's first Atlantic hurricane is disrupting efforts to clean up the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.