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An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

Team New Zealand's crew is heading to Europe in the next days preparing for this country's first campaign for 17 years in sailing's premier round-the-world race. Audio

AMP Capital Investors expect the Reserve Bank to raise interest rates slowly from September as the economy strengthens further. Audio

The discovery of a second stoat on Kapiti Island is a clear sign of a breeding population on the wildlife reserve, according to the Department of Conservation. Audio

Ticket sales are slow ahead of this Friday's All Black test match against Fiji in Dunedin. Audio

The Australian arm of Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp has been told it will have to answer hard questions following the growing phone hacking scandal. Audio

A judge is poised to rule on whether the Destiny Church co-founder, Hannah Tamaki can carry on with her controversial challenge to head up the Maori Women's Welfare League. Audio

The Pike River Royal Commission has been told the coal inside the mine was not prone to spontaneous combustion. Audio

The Crown's to apologise to a Poverty Bay iwi for multiple Treaty breaches that include the unjustified use of military force in Gisborne, and the summary executions of prisoners at Ngatapa in 1869… Read more Audio

The British Prime Minister David Cameron will be grilled by parliament later today about his decision to employ a former tabloid newspaper editor caught up in the phone-hacking scandal at News of the… Read more Audio

Thirty to fourty jobs are to go at the Christchurch department store, Ballantynes, because of earthquake damage to it's central city shop. Audio

The Prime Minister has confirmed multiple security agencies investigated the unusual behaviour of a group of Israelis after the February quake in Christchurch. Audio