1Labour's Deputy Leader Grant Robertson has confirmed he will run for the Labour leadership. Is New Zealand ready for a gay Prime Minister?

2Police are appealing for help after a young woman found the body of her father and an unknown female killed in his bedroom in a rural South Auckland property this morning.

3Humanitarian group Medcins Sans Frontieres says it has evidence that a chemical attack was carried out in Syria this week, killing hundreds of civilians.

4Police are still investigating the cause of a crash that claimed the lives of two teenagers near Kumeu on Saturday morning.

5New Zealand is experiencing its warmest winter since records began in the 1860s.

6Counties Manukau Police say children as young as twelve have been caught joy-riding in stolen vehicles around Auckland, and such incidents are contributing to a spike in vehicle break-ins in Otara, Highland Park, Howick and Botany. A look at Operation Focus - a Police initiative to curb the activities of the regions's top fifteen youth offenders.

7Former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson has claimed he is on the verge of dying as a result of substance abuse.

8Christchurch artist Richard Gardiner is preserving the memories of those forced to leave quake-damaged homes in Canterbury, by making models of their houses.

9The career of one of New Zealand's most accomplished helicopter pilots was celebrated in Te Anau this weekend. Bill Black has clocked up fifty-five years flying, several hundred search and rescues and many accolades. Now aged seventy, he is taking retirement from the career he loves.

10Prime Minister John Key's daughter Stephanie has posted a series of provocative self-portraits online ahead of a French art exhibition.

11Otago rugby fans celebrated with their team today as they welcomed the Ranfurly Shield to Dunedin.