1Sue Bradford has resigned as Vice President of the New Labour Party (NLP), highlighting growing tension within the party over its direction.
2There has been another ferry fire in Europe, the second in two days. One person has been killed and nine injured in the Norrona car ferry off the coast of Wales. Meanwhile, the blaze aboard the Scandinavian Star in the North Sea is prompting a search for arsonists.
3Peter Blake and the crew of Steinlager II have won the fifth leg of the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race.
4A National Party selection meeting for the Auckland seat of Birkenhead is underway this evening.
5Auckland prison officers are mounting a new protest over the Government's changes to their superannuation scheme. Wardens at Paremoremo Prison are planning a mass withdrawal of their superannuation savings.
6Priceless Maori artefacts have been stolen from the displays at a Hawkes Bay Museum.
7It appears that Auckland's notorious 'Hole in the Wall Gang' has struck again, stealing a safe from a jewelry shop.
8Sue Bradford has resigned as Vice President of the New Labour Party (NLP), highlighting growing tension within the party over its direction. Studio interview with NLP leader Jim Anderton.
9Political disruption appears to have dissipated in Nepal after the King backed down and granted demonstrators some of their demands. A group of young New Zealanders are currently in Nepal with Sir Edmund Hilary to clean up the lower slopes of Mount Everest.
10The centre-right Democratic Forum has won a decisive victory in Hungary's first free elections in forty years.