1Senior Constable Gordon Stanley Myer has today admitted indecently assaulting a woman and offering to let another one off a driving offence in exchange for sexual favours.

2Ewen MacDonald, the man acquitted of killing Feilding farmer Scott Guy, will make his second bid for freedom next week.

3The Government is currently negotiating with fund managers and brokers over the price it wants for its Air New Zealand shares. Fears have been raised that increased privatisation could be bad for Air New Zealand's employees. The timing of the sale is controversial with the asset sale referendum due next week, however today Finance Minister Bill English announced that this is likely to be the last asset sale.

4Aid is starting to get through to some isolated parts of the Philippines, a week after Typhoon Haiyan.

5Tornadoes in the United States have ripped through Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Kentucky, killing at least five people and injuring dozens more.

6It has been revealed that Australian intelligence agencies have been secretly trying to listen to phone calls made by Indonesia's President. There has also been extremely bad weather in New South Wales, causing a shopping centre roof to collapse in the North Sydney suburb of Hornsby.

7Wellington Police are searching for answers after five buses were destroyed in an early morning blaze this morning.

8The woman who ran over her partner a number of times in Hamilton yesterday before driving her car into the Waikato River has undergone a psychological evaluation.

9An investigation is taking place into why a Boeing 737 crashed in Russia, killing all fifty people on board.

10Prime Minister John Key has raised the issue of human rights abuses directly with Sri Lanka's President and insisted he did not sugar coat the message. However, human rights groups say he did not do enough and was only interested in securing Sri Lanka's vote for New Zealand's place on the United Nations Security Council.