Checkpoint

News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

News from the Waatea team. Audio

A man's gone on trial in the German city of Dresden charged with stabbing to death a pregnant Egyptian woman. Audio

Britain has begun a campaign to have the former prime minister Tony Blair appointed as the first President of the European Union. Audio

Fidel Castro's younger sister has admitted working undercover for the Central Intelligence Agency in Cuba in the early 1960s. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

A man has gone on trial at the High Court in Wellington for killing a young Palmerston North drug dealer, whose body has never been found. Audio

An Australian parliamentary report has raised the possiblity of banning people from living in coastal areas threated by rising sea levels. Audio

The High Court has begun hearing the case of a Kapiti Coast woman and her son who claim they were severely poisoned by a wrongly installed gas heater. Audio

The political crisis in Zimbabwe has deepened today, following the first meeting between President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, since the prime minister's MDC party boycotted the unity… Read more Audio

The US President's vowing not to be pressured into a quick decision about troop levels in Afghanistan. Audio

Labour says the promo for an economy series looks and sounds like a party political broadcast. Audio