1The reputation of New Zealand's meat export trade has been slurred by a German agency, which wrongly told millions of people that New Zealand sheep had scrapie.
2The Land Transport Safety Authority is investigating the state of Tranz Rail's track on the Raurimu Spiral.
3Child abuse - are the penalties for caregivers who abuse and kill children in their care sufficient? Yesterday's sentencing of a mother is compared to life imprisonment for a fourteen year old boy in the USA who killed a six year old girl.
4Israel's new Defence Minister had to dive for cover when a sniper started shooting at him.
5Scientists say they are set to start cloning babies within weeks. This is attracting widespread condemnation.
6Britain's foot and mouth epidemic is now hampering British tourism and other industries.
7Former British MP Peter Mandelson has been cleared of any wrongdoing in a passport-supplying scandal.
8The Act Party has launched a new book called "Closing the Gaps".