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Exactly 75 years ago today, Superman made his debut in "Action Comics" No. 1. Campaigners for the restoration of the Christchurch Cathedral are "thrilled" that rebuilding the earthquake-damaged church… Audio

Topics - The popular fad of paying dearly for a fancy cupcake might be fading at last, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Labour Party is proposing to set up a single buyer of electricity to… Audio

Topics - Teenage heartthrob Justin Bieber continues to draw ire after his visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Thirty-three health workers have been disciplined for sneakily peeking at x-rays… Audio

Topics - we now know that a teenager was sending and receiving regular text messages shortly before the van he was driving slid off a rain-drenched highway and rolled - fatally injuring one of 11… Audio

Topics - After four years in Hamilton, the V8s and their crowds returned to Pukekohe at the weekend with organisers saying they are already on track to deliver a good return for Auckland ratepayers'… Audio

The BBC is likely to play 'Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead' on the radio this weekend; controversy over smoking scenes in The Hobbit; and cheap new tablet computers. Audio

Topic 1 - Dirty Netball. Topic 2 - University of Canterbury. Topic 3 - Cheap tablets. Audio

Topics - Motorcar manufacturer Holden has been criticised for suggesting that redundant factory workers should take up a career mowing lawns, cutting hair or get into aged care - as experts warn the… Audio

Topics - Love her or loathe her, one thing's beyond dispute: Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain. New Zealanders are evenly split on whether the country needs a constitutional review. An ex-postie… Audio

Topics - Momentum Machines, a San Francisco-based company, has created a burger-flipping device that can crank out custom-made burgers - extra lettuce, hold the mayo - at industrial speeds. One less… Audio

The BBC concludes there are now 7 different social classes, the NZ flag is lowered at Kiwibase in Bamiyan province, the British PM says it would be "foolish" to abandon its Trident nuclear deterrent… Audio

Topics - The US is moving an advanced missile system to the Pacific island of Guam as a precaution following threats by North Korea. The two men accused of assaulting the cricketer, Jesse Ryder… Audio

Topics - Samoa Air has introduced a "pay what you weigh" price system that will charge fat people more money to fly. Some new research shows the road crash injury risk in Auckland is higher among… Audio

Topics - The Green Party says the Government must call off its asset sales programme if it wants to reach a deal over the future of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. The latest attempt to give… Audio

What the Panel thinks of the new Speaker's performance so far. A NZ JP and Sikh community leader has returned to India whence he fled while on bail many years ago and has been immediately arrested on… Audio

Topics - Despite the screeds of data Facebook collects about people, the social network needs to know its users much better if it is going to become - as it says it wants to - the Web's most effective… Audio

Topics - The Sultan is in New Zealand on a four-day state visit. The CEO of the Earthquake Commission has kept his job, after a meeting today with the Minister for Earthquake Recovery Gerry Brownlee… Audio

Topics - Carlos Santana says Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Kurt Cobain were killed by their egos. Corrections Department figures show that some of the worst criminals sentenced to preventive… Audio

The use of words with emotional content in books has steadily decreased throughout the last century, according to new research from the Universities of Bristol, Sheffield, and Durham. Is it time New… Audio

Topics - the former Thames man who fleeced Queensland taxpayers of more than 16 million (Australian) dollars has begun a 14 year sentence in a Queensland jail, after pleading guilty to fraud and drugs… Audio

Topics - Cliff swallows that build nests that dangle precariously from highway overpasses have a lower chance of becoming roadkill than in years past thanks to a shorter wingspan that lets them dodge… Audio

Topics - In Auckland parking fines were referred to by one councillor a while back as a straight-out money grab to hold down rates. A plane belonging to a respectable German airline has problems… Audio

Topics - Pope Francis has appeared before some 150,000 pilgrims massed in St Peter's Square for his first Angelus prayer and asked the faithful to pray for him. 'Younger Generation Lags Behind Its… Audio

John Key is facing claims he misled the public after the former Solid Energy chairman John Palmer said the company resisted Government pressure to take on more debt. Audio

Topics - In an attempt to make their productions appeal to a wider audience, some performing arts organisations are offering "tweet seats"- a row at the very back of the auditorium where patrons are… Audio