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5:14 AM.An Israeli airstrike that caused a huge blaze at a tented area for displaced people in Rafah has killed 45 people, Middle-East correspondent Alex Baird has the latest. Audio

5:10 AM.US correspondent Bevan Hurley has the latest on the case against former US President Donald Trump Audio

5:05 AM.An Australian man has chased a speeding wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down a muddy hill to claim victory in a world-famous competition. Pam Corkery has the latest from across the Tasman Audio

5:53 AM.Philip Duncan from Weather Watch talks about Autumn coming to an end Audio

5:46 AM.Finance Minister Nicola Willis talks with Nathan about her first Budget which will help the "squeezed middle", giving tax relief which she hopes won't be inflationary. Audio

5:36 AM.A delegation is currently in London in an attempt to negotiate the early return to Aotearoa of carvings from Hinemihi Te Ao Tawhito - a meeting house which survived the eruption of Tarawera in 1886… Read more Audio

5:24 AM.Local democracy reporter Alka Prasad in South Auckland talks to Nathan about plans to find a new owner for Auckland Airport. Audio

5:16 AM.Our correspondent in Tokyo Chris Gilbert tells Nathan about China, Japan and South Korea summit seeing leaders discuss North Korea de-nuclearisation and Mr Donut apologises over faux meat pies. Audio

5:09 AM.UK correspondent Henry Riley talks about the new plans for military service and the annual cheese-rolling race on an unfeasibly steep hill in Gloucestershire. Audio

5:06 AM.Hundreds of towns are under water after heavy rains caused widespread flooding in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Correspondent Kate Pereyra-Garcia has the latest from South… Read more Audio

5:49 AM.Epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker talks about being party of most extensive review of face masks that found mask wearing is definitely effective protection against COVID. Audio

5:44 AM.A misunderstanding over zoning has meant a new housing development north of Auckland has had no mail deliveries for a year. So when is rural actually rural? First Up's Leonard Powell finds out. Audio

5:23 AM.What happens on World Potato Day, First Up's Minister of Fruit and Veg digs deeper Audio

5:14 AM.Ten thousand people holding posters reading 'SOS Residents', and 'Enough of Mass Tourism' marched through the capital on Majorca and France is going for a massive clean up of the river Seine before… Read more Audio

5:06 AM.Former US president Donald Trump gets booed at the Libertarian convention, US corrspondent Mitch McCann with all the details. Audio

5:53 AM.Epuni Street in Wellington's inner city has been formally renamed to Honiana Te Puni Street correcting a two century old mistake Audio

5:47 AM.What are the rules around e-Scooters? Explainers editor Katie Kenny has the details Audio

5:25 AM.It's soup season - the Minister, Glenn Forsyth, swoops in with his dad's famous 4-2-1 soup plus Fruit of the Week: NZ Beurre Bosc Pears Audio

5:18 AM.A Kenyan mountaineer has died on Mt Everest - Nabil Ahmed Rufai joined the programme from Ghana, Africa Audio

5:11 AM.Unrest continues in New Caledonia - Kalafi Moala updates us on events from French Polynesia Audio

5:05 AM.The US Department of Justice intends to break up the Ticketmaster and it's parent company Live Nation - Bevan Hurley has the details from New York. Audio

5:52 AM.Labour's Deputy Leader Carmel Sepuloni isn't impressed with the ditching of the First Home Grant Audio

5:47 AM.The government has axed the First Home Buyers Grant - mortgage broker Grant Patten talked with Nathan Rarere Audio

5:37 AM.Malkit Singh has become the first New Zealand Sikh to climb Mt Everest - he talked with Nathan Rarere from his hospital bed in Kathmandu Audio

5:26 AM.Our Northland reporter Peter de Graaf tells Nathan about a good over-population problem with too many kiwi on Moturoa Island and a bad over-population problem with too many kina around the coast. Audio