1NZ hospitals brace themselves for a bad year after the budget allocated them much less than the rate of inflation. Interview with the Health Minister.
2Other news.
3The British High Commissioner to NZ has taken offence at claims that NZ soldiers were used as guinea pigs in British nuclear tests in the Australian desert in the 1950s. Now NZ veterans are furious at his denials.
4A Republican Senator has left the party, handing control of the US Senate over to the Democrats. Implications for President Bush's programme?
5Other news.