1The near 10-year hunt for the the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks ended yesterday when a small United States strike team short Osama bin Laden dead at his hideout near the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. Nine to Noons speaks with United States counter-terrorism expert and former military senior adviser David Kilcullen, and al-Qaeda and terrorism expert and author Marc Sageman.

2In 1921 Dr. Louis Terman began a study of 1.5-thousand young school children in the United States. He collected information about their personalities, famailies, habits and a myriad of other factors that could influence their wellbeing. This was the beginning of a unique study that's lasted more than 80-years. Leslie Martin is a US psychology professor and co-author of The Longevity Project, which analyses a landmark eight-decade study in a bid to answer the question of who lives longest and why.

3News from the United States, including: United States' reaction of the killing of Osama bin Laden;

4Business news, including: Telecom's infrastructure highly over-valued; the impact, or non-impact, of new ACT Party leader Don Brash's economic policies;

5Media commentary, including: Don Brash, Rodney Hide, and the ACT Party; review of political reporting from around the country; Osama bin Laden;