1One of NZ's largest employers, the Auckland District Health Board, proposes refusing to hire smokers. The DHB's board, which operates Auckland City Hospital, Starship and Greenlane, has instructed management to develop a plan to ban smokers from the staff. But is this actually legal, and is it discriminatory?

2A council committee is also looking at smoking bans and there are plans for a blanket ban on smoking in Auckland's CBD

3In Australia's most sweeping economic reform in decades and what Australia's carbon pricing plan means for NZ

4News from the United Kingdom, including: Why Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has withdrawn its US$12 billion bid for full control of BSkyB amid the phone hacking scandal. There is an atmosphere of public revulsion about the actions of the Murdock empire.

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6Nigel and his colleague Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout were kidnapped in Somalia by a criminal gang in 2008. In his book, The Price of Life, he details for the first time their 15 month captivity, including their conversion to Islam, their ill-fated escape attempt and what really happened to Amanda. Nigel now uses his experiences to advise companies and NGOs whose employees are sent to hostile environments

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8Technology comment, including; building your own nuclear accelerator, CERN; open source hardware; old stories via new technology; and South Korea's plans to ditch physical text books by 2015

9Psychological responses to the Canterbury earthquakes and treating anxiety.

10TV review with Simon Wilson including; Sports commentaries, TV3's documentary on drugs and the medical drama Monroe.