1An 11 year old boy has been charged with starting one of the bigger bush fires currently raging across New South Wales. He joins two 12 and 13 year old girls already charged with arson. A Whakatane man has been credited with saving four homes in the town of Bell with buckets of water.

2Auckland Mayor Len Brown was heckled today when fronting publicly for the first time since news of his affair broke.

3Convicted killer Teina Pora is denying he misled the Parole Board after it declined his fourteenth application for freedom, saying he can not be trusted.

4Bad weather has stopped work at the Pike River Mine on the first day of the Government-funded re-entry plan.

5Senior naval officer Commodore Kevin Keat has been dismissed over an affair with a civilian subordinate. Exclusive interview with the woman at the centre of the scandal.

6The Government has given $5 million to tide Team New Zealand over for the next six months.

7Prime Minister John Key has written to the Remuneration Authority with his annual pre-Christmas recommendation for a pay rise for MPs.

8Former Labour Party Cabinet Minister Chris Carter was just 25 metres away from an explosion outside the compound in Kabul where he lives.

9Two killers who escaped from a Florida prison using fake release documents have been recaptured.

10New security video from inside the Nairobi shopping mall overtaken by terrorists shows security forces apparently looting during the ordeal.

11Silver Fern Farms has closed its Horowhenua factory, leaving nearly 90 locals unemployed.

12The Government is boasting of signing up to 8000 new apprentices, most of whom will be employed as part of the Christchurch rebuild.

13The future of the four year girl known only as Maria, hinges on whether she was abducted or adopted by her Roma caregivers.