1The teachers strikes have taken an unusual twist, students have struck back. Pupils at three Christchurch high schools went on strike.
2The early election means thousands of 7th formers will miss out on voting, since election day will come before many of them turn eighteen.
3Two of New Zealand's largest left wing lobby groups, the University Student's Association and the Council of Trade Unions are urging voters not to let Labour govern alone.
4The leaders of Labour and National fired their opening shots in the election campaign today.
5Africa's 13 million starving, a special report from Angola.
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7The private wills of hundreds of Dunedin people have been found in rubbish bags on wasteland in the city. The wills bore the stamp of disgraced Dunedin Lawyer, Michael Guest.
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9Asian women have the highest abortion rate of any ethnic group according to the latest New Zealand statistics.
10It is claimed that another Al Qaeda bomb plot has been foiled. Three members of Osama bin Laden's organization have been arrested in Morocco.
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12A Palestinian suicide bomber has killed himself and an Israeli teenager in Herzlya, Israel.
13The Pentagon has marked another stage in its rebuilding Programme following the September 11th attack.
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15Progressive Enterprises is to take over Woolworth's Supermarket.
16Other news.