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An update from the team at RNZ Sport Audio

The New Zealand under-17 football team has suffered a heartbreaking 1-nil loss to Brazil in their World Cup round of 16 game in Chile. Audio

The Reserve Bank has left the cost of borrowing on hold at 2 point 75 percent - at least for now. Audio

A lawyer for the children of a Lincoln woman run over by her farmer husband says the police dropped the ball when they looked into her death. Audio

Anti-oil campaigners say they've been let down by the Auckland Mayor for not taking a stance against the government's plan for deep sea oil exploration off the west coast. Audio

A Somalian refugee with a long list of convictions since he arrived in New Zealand in 1999, is to be held as a special patient in a secure psychiatric unit, while attempts continue to deport him. Audio

Kiwirail has made an impassioned plea for support from the Government and from the the public. Audio

At an emergency meeting held today at the Māori boarding school Hato Petera the Bishop of Auckland Pat Dunn has closed the boarding halls once and for all. Audio

The country's biggest bank - ANZ - has reported a slight lift in its annual profit to 1-point-7-7 billion dollars, driven by growth in mortgage and business lending. Audio

Carmel Stanwell is dying from lung cancer while her partner wrestles to get out of immigration detention to care for her. Audio

The man who stole a two million dollar French painting at gunpoint in 1998 has today been sentenced for stealing a rare motorbike described as a mechanical piece of art. Audio

Our reporter, Tom Furley, is next to the slumped bridge in Upper Hutt. Audio