1New Zealand First MP Richard Prosser has given a qualified apology for making anti-Muslim comments in his Investigate magazine column. However he remains unrepentant.

2Police are yet to find a body in a burned-out cabin following a gunfight with a man believed to be ex-officer Christopher Dorner, wanted for a spate of killings

3Contact Energy is slashing 10% of its workforce, with the loss of over 100 jobs, despite a big forecast profit.

4Speculation is mounting about who will succeed Pope Benedict XVI in the wake of his shock resignation. The Catholic Church has revealed that Pope Benedict XVI has a pacemaker although no specific health issue prompted his shock resignation yesterday.

5A South Island man facing a raft of child sex charges has won a bid for interim name suppression. The man was involved in a deal with convicted paedophile Aaron John Elmers involving Elmers seeking sexual gratification with the man's 13 month old baby boy.

6Charges have been upgraded against two men arrested for the fatal shooting of an Auckland man in Flatbush in January.

7A new report has revealed that almost 70 dolphins and over 300 fur seals were accidentally caught in New Zealand waters by the fishing industry in just one season.

8Woolworths in Australia says it will begin DNA testing meat in a New Zealand made house brand frozen meal in response to the horse meat scandal in Britain and Europe.

9United States President Barack Obama has outlined plans to revive the United States economy in his State of the Union address, as well as challenging his Republican opponents to back his plans for greater gun control.

10Five million dollars of taxpayer money will be sunk into trying to fix the shambolic Novopay system.

11DNA testing has confirmed a child spotted in Queenstown on New Year's Eve is NOT missing British girl Madeleine McCann.

12North Korea's only major ally, China, has joined the rest of the world in condemning its latest nuclear test.

13A group of British researchers is calling for the anti-inflammatory drug Diclofenac to be banned, saying it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke by 40%.

14Two years on from the Christchurch earthquake, Shirley Boys' High School and Avonside Girls' High School have finally found out how badly damaged their land is.

15The Government is squeezing $165 million out of the Police budget over the next twelve years to give frontline officers smartphones and tablets, despite making job cuts last year.

16Music was once banned in Afghanistan, but now the country's first Youth Orchestra id on tour in the United States.

17The latest dance craze to go viral on the internet is the Harlem Shake.

18Adam Miller has taken the world of skateboarding by storm backflipping between two boards down a flight of six steps.