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The German city of Berlin has been party central today as world leaders joined thousands of ordinary Germans marking 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Audio

An update from the RNZ sports team. Audio

Water Safety New Zealand says 14 of the 15 people who drowned in October were men - and boats were a factor in nearly half the deaths. Audio

The defence lawyer for the high profile inmate, Graeme Burton, says the Crown has failed to prove his client tried to kill a fellow prisoner. Audio

News from the business sector including a market update. Audio

Members of New Zealand's Tongan community say the country is ready to be run by an elected parliament and for the constitutional monarch to have less power. Audio

In the most publicised drugs case in Japanese history, the normally straitlaced singer and actress Neriko Sakai has been sentenced to 18 months jail for using methamphetamine, or P. Audio

The country's richest harness race has just been run at Addington Raceway with Monkey King winning the New Zealand Trotting Cup and the one million dollar tote. Audio

The Maori Party MP Hone Harawira is in hot water again, this time for suggesting that Labour leader Phil Goff should be shot. Audio

World leaders have gathered in Berlin to mark the tearing-down of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago. Audio

Sydney police are hunting a suspect after a double homicide in the suburb of Randwick. Audio

Two convicted murderers have given evidence about cellblock confessions they say were made by the man accused of killing a Palmerston North drug dealer. Audio