1The United Future Party has been de-registered due to its membership dropping below 500.

2Police have been ordered to return digital files collected during the raid on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom's mansion.

3New figures show a 15% drop in sales since a higher tax on cigarettes and tobacco was introduced.

4Photographs of the bathroom where model Reeva Steenkamp was shot by her paralympian boyfriend scar Pistorius have been released a week before he returns to court.

5One of the men who killed British soldier Lee Rigby on a Woolwich street has appeared in court.

6Sir Bob Jones says Sir Douglas Graham should keep his knighthood. claiming the only crime he is guilty of is being unlucky and gullible.

7National MP Maurice Williamson has decided he will not run for the Auckland mayoralty.

8Today marks 1000 days since the first earthquake in Canterbury.

9The new born baby boy rescued from a sewer pipe in China has been released from hospital and reunited with his mother. The baby's father has also now come forward.

10The use of Nga Hau E Wha National Marae in Christchurch as a makeshift District Court has come to an end and has been labelled a huge success by everyone involved.

11Another letter laced with ricin has been intercepted en route to United States President Barack Obama.

12During World War Two the United States used an army of artists on a secret mission designed to fool the enemy. What was their role?

13Christchurch has hosted an NZX launch from IT company SLI Systems.

14Russian scientists have unearthed what they believe to be the preserved blood of a woolly mammoth, reigniting hopes that the extinct creature may be able to be brought back from the dead.