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9:44 AM.Islamic State threatens to kill two Japanese hostages unless Tokyo pays $200 million. Indonesia executes five foreigner over drugs charges. New revelations on the AirAsia plane crash. North Korean… Read more Audio

9:28 AM.A high powered group of European politicians and football officials is pushing for total reform of football's governing body, FIFA, which it says is beset with corruption, mismanagement and self… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Secretary of the U.S Air Force, Deborah Lee James, is trying to change the culture of  the her organisation to make it fairer and more open. Ms James overseeing 700,000 active duty and reserve airmen… Read more Audio

11:51 AM.Inherent Vice, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, A Most Violent Year, Audio

11:33 AM.Charles McGuinness is an employment lawyer with DLA Phillips Fox. Audio

11:07 AM.Kim Fowley passed away last week at the age of 75. He was a rock and roll original… a producer, songwriter, arranger, artist, label owner and all-around hustler who started out in 1959 at the age of… Read more Audio

10:33 AM.eviewed by Gail Pittaway. Published by Allen & Unwin. Audio

10:07 AM.New Zealand entrepreneur Siobhan Bulfin has built a company from scratch which harnesses social media for social good. Social Code, which develops mobile apps to help patients manage their health, is… Read more Audio

9:47 AM.The conflicts in Yemen. Russian weapons sales to Iran. Israeli helicopter strike in Syria. Audio

9:29 AM.Dr Alexandre Kalache is the Co-President of the Global Alliance of International Longevity Centres, a consortium of think tanks on ageing in seventeen countries that is headquartered at Columbia… Read more Audio

9:21 AM.The National Poisons Centre is alarmed by a rise in the number of people getting accidentally poisoned due to mislabelled or unlabelled containers. Leo Schep is the Poison Centre's toxicologist. Audio

9:07 AM.Canterbury farmers are urging the government to declare a drought, and want to be able to take water from Lake Tekapo. A South Island Farmer who has changed his practices to withstand continuing… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Death of Coronation street star Anne Kirkbride. The latest cover of Charlie Hebdo magazine. Lists the good and the bad for the year. Audio

11:23 AM.After journalist and documentary maker Laura Poitras received encrypted emails from someone with information on the US government's massive covert-surveillance programs, she and reporter Glenn… Read more Audio

11:08 AM.The economic forecast for New Zealand this year. European plans quantitative easing. The effects of cheap oil imports. Audio

10:34 AM.Reviewed by Rae McGregor. Published by HarperCollins. Audio

10:07 AM.Rebekah LaBar saw her first tornado at the age of 12 in her native America and was both terrified and entralled by it. She's taken that fascination and turned it into a career as a meteorologist and… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.The expected execution of Australians for drugs in Indonesia. Health costs in Australia. Cricket Australia being sued. Audio

9:34 AM.The Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme has been running for more than 33 years. Over 6000 year 12 and 13 students have set up and run small businesses over the course of a school year. The scheme… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Since 1970 the Katherine Mansfield Menton fellowship has been awarded to a New Zealand writer each year, who gets access for a period of six months or more to the writing room in the Villa Isola Bella… Read more Audio

11:49 AM.Home magazine editor Jeremy Hansen looks at architecture around New Zealand. Audio

11:30 AM.Claire Turnbull is a columnist for the Healthy Food Guide Magazine columnist and has written a new book, Feel Good for Life, in which she offers practical advice on how to embark on a healthier… Read more Audio

11:08 AM.Trish Sherson and Mike Williams on the latest political news. Audio

10:31 AM.Reviewed by David Hill. Audio

10:07 AM.Keith Richards is one of the original members of the Rolling Stones and Rolling Stone magazine has ranked him 4th on its list of the world top 100 best guitarists. The 70 year old singer songwriter… Read more Audio