1High schools around the country look likely to be hit by another round of industrial action. Secondary School teachers are expected to reject the government's latest pay offer when the PPTA announces its vote results later this afternoon.

2The President of Greece, Constantinos Stephanopolis,is in Wellington this morning.

3There has been rioting on the streets of Moscow after Russia lost their World Cup match against Japan.

4In France, voters seem to have deserted John-Marie Le Pen's far right National Front Party in elections for a new national assembly.

5Traces of nerve and mustard gas have been found at an American airbase in Uzbekistan.

6More than 15 hundred people have gathered in Kabul to discuss the make-up of Afghanistan's new government.

7Other news.

8Relations between Australia and Ngaru are close to breaking point. Nauru agreed to take more than a thousand asylum seekers last year from a ship of the Australian Coast.

9Other news.