1A 20 year old Christchurch man underwent surgery yesterday to remove a 9 centimetre knife from his head. Interview with the Police officer and surgeon who both helped to save the man's sight and his life.

2Police issued more than 600,000 speeding tickets during 2012, a fifty percent jump on five years ago. Why the increase? What are the most ticketed spots in New Zealand?

3Four motorcyclists are in hospital after accidents during motorcycle races today.

4A fifteen year old girl is dead and a seventeen year old male driver is in a serious condition in hospital after their car collided with a train on an unprotected level crossing near Masterton.

5The family of paralympian Oscar Pistorius have broken their silence to defend him against accusations that he fatally shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Meanwhile a reality television show starring the model has controversially been screened despite her fatal shooting.

6Scientists say the meteor that caused a massive shock wave in Russia was significantly larger and heavier than they first thought.

7Telecom has been forced to apologise to its customers once again as the fallout from a cyber-attack continues to cause problems. The company has cancelled the passwords of thousands more customers following last week's cyber-attack. The company now believes up to 75,000 customers may have been affected, not the 15,000 it first thought.

8Environment Canterbury has issued a warning to stay away from some popular swimming holes because an algal bloom has made people sick.

9Shalvin Prasad's team mates took to the football (soccer) field today for the first time since he was found burnt to death on a rural road in South Auckland last month.

10At least 65 people have been killed in a bomb attack in a crowded marketplace in the Pakistani city of Quetta.

11Such is the level of violence and corruption in Chicago caused by one man - Mexican drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loer (aka El Chapo)- that the city has named him 'public enemy number one'.

12Gisborne angler Julie Dowsing has broken the New Zealand Women's Angling record for catching a 1.8 metre long tuna weighing 102.2 kilograms.

13A New Zealand feature film called "Shopping" has won major awards at this year's Berlin Film Festival. The movie is set on the Kapiti Coast in 1981 and follows the small-town lives of two brothers.

14American film executives are trying to break into the lucrative Chinese market. A look at the skyrocketing enormous Chinese film industry and the limitations faced by making movies in Communist China.

15There is ongoing debate about the lengths to which computers should be used in classrooms, as well as the merits of video games in education. One New York school may have resolved the issue.