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The US has begun flying emergency aid into Pakistan, where the United Nations says four million people have been made homeless by the country's worst-ever floods. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

A snowboarder has died at Mt Hutt - taking the number of deaths at the skifield to four during what management says has been a devastating season. Audio

News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

In Japan, the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack has been marked in Hiroshima - and for the first time, the United States has sent a representative. Audio

Sergeants Keith Parsons and Erle Busby, Constable John Mills and Senior Constable Bruce Laing were trying to move him to another cell after he refused to be fingerprinted. Audio

Glenda Alexander from the Nurses Organisation is one of the organisers of today's march. Audio

More than ten thousand people marched up Dunedin's main street today and held hands around the city's hospital as part of the fight to stop their two neurosurgeons being shifted to Canterbury. Audio

Protestors fight to keep neurosurgeons in Dunedin, More on today's march in Dunedin, Police force at Whakatane station unreasonable, US representative attends Hiroshima commemoration, Four deaths in… Read more Audio

News from the Waatea team. Audio

A massive irrgation canal that may link Canterbury's northern border to its southern-most areas, may be initially funded by central Government in a similar way to New Zealand's broadband system. Audio

Four people have been killed in yet another school attack - despite a government vow to beef up security for schools and kindergartens across the country. Audio