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Whanau Ora Minister Tariana Turia has indicated funding may be shifted from family violence prevention programmes to frontline anti-violence work.

A memorial service has been held in the Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin to remember the loss of life in the earthquakes in Christchurch and Japan.

Services took place around the country on Friday, as other New Zealanders joined with Cantabrians to reflect on the Christchurch earthquake.

Prince William has told tens of thousands of people at the memorial service for victims of the Christchurch earthquake Cantabrians are an inspiration to all people. Audio

The families of the Pike River Coal mine workers say their spirits have been boosted by the visit to Greymouth of Prince William on Thursday.

Most of the Australian urban search and rescue teams in Christchurch will return home on Wednesday, just over three weeks after the 6.3-magnitude quake.

A minute's silence has been observed at a Japanese festival in Auckland in memory of the lives lost in Friday's earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Five schools in Christchurch reopened on Monday and the Ministry of Education expects another 25 to reopen this week. Audio

The American New Zealand Association has raised more than half a million dollars from donors in the United States.

A cross recovered from the ruins of Christchurch Cathedral will be a symbol of hope as worshippers gather for services on Sunday morning.

The International Council on Monuments and Sites says talk of razing heritage buildings in Christchurch is highly premature. Audio

Recovery teams have completed searching the Christchurch Cathedral and have found no bodies there. It had been thought that the earthquake had trapped 22 people in the cathedral. Audio

The Minister for Earthquake Recovery says only four of Christchurch's historic, landmark buildings damaged in the earthquake are likely to be rebuilt.

Searchers have continued their efforts through the night to recover more bodies from the rubble at two main quake-hit sites in central Christchurch - the Forsyth Barr building and the cathedral.

A painstaking recovery operation at the CTV building which collapsed in the Christchurch earthquake is expected to be finished in about three days, the Fire Service says.

Thousands of British-based New Zealanders gathered in London at a vigil in London to remember those who lost their lives in the Canterbury quake. Audio

Civil Defence has moved from rescue to recovery efforts, saying there is almost no chance of finding anyone alive in buildings wrecked by the devastating Christchurch earthquake. Audio

Four more bodies have been recovered from the ruins of a Christchurch buildings destroyed in last week's earthquake, bringing the death toll to 160.