1A man charged with kidnapping will appear in court tomorrow after a horrific case in which motorists witnessed a mother of three being dragged almost two kilometres behind a car along State Highway One in the Waikato.

2Meka Whaitiri has been chosen to be Labour's candidate in the Ikaroa-Rawhiti by-election.

3Analysis of the latest 3 News Reid Research political poll.

4Cyber experts say half of home computers in new Zealand lack even basic security measures, leaving New Zealand vulnerable to cyber-terrorism or espionage.

5A young dairy farmer is dead and another man seriously injured after a head-on motorbike crash last night on a shingle road in North Canterbury.

6Authorities in France are investigating whether the stabbing of a soldier on the outskirts of Paris was a copycat attack of the murder of soldier Lee Rigby in London two days ago.

7Three more people have been arrested in London by Police investigating the murder of a British soldier by Islamic terrorists. A backlash to the killing is spreading through the United Kingdom.

8Gay rights activists in Russia have clashed with Police and Orthodox Christian demonstrators during a march in Moscow.

9A Government report into the clothing factory collapse that killed over 1000 people in Bangladesh last month has found it was built with sub-standard materials. However, that is hardly surprising in a country like Bangladesh, where worker's rights are largely non-existent.

10Auckland woman Amelia Cunningham has received a new version of a pacemaker-type device called an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD that can go inside MRI scanners.