1The Middle East is creeping closer to all-out war as Israel and Hamas continue to trade blows across the Gaza border.
2The Labour Party conference is getting underway in Auckland. Former Labour MP John Tamihere says he wants to stand for the party again, but says he is being blocked by the leadership.
3Other news.
4The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall have completed their tour of NZ with a day in Christchurch.
5Other news.
6A campaign aimed at luring NZ Police officers to Australia is proving so popular, the NZ Police Association is becoming concerned that NZ is losing its best and brightest.
7Other news.
8BP has received the biggest criminal fine in US history for its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
9British radio presenter Dave Lee Travis has been arrested as part of the BBC Jimmy Savile sex abuse investigation.
10The BBC will pay retied British politician Lord McAlpine $360,000 plus costs over a Newsnight programme which wrongly implicated him in a child sex abuse scandal.
11China's new leader says his country faces huge challenges.
12Other news.