The Police files relating to an incident at the home of Judge Coral Shaw involving her husband, Peter Shaw, and Phillip Edwards, killer of TV presenter David McNee, have been made public. They suggest police were somewhat sceptical of Peter Shaw's version of events.
The Court of Appeal has dismissed asylum-seeker Ahmed Zaoui's latest bid to be released from prison, ruling his imprisonment in the Auckland Remand Centre is lawful. However, the Court has also told prison authorities to reconsider a request from TVNZ to interview Zaoui. Deborah Manning (Ahmed Zaoui's lawyer).
The Auckland Mayoral race has stepped up a gear, with candidate Dick Hubbard accusing Council staff and the National Business Review of 'dirty tactics' and harassment. Dick Hubbard (Auckland Mayoral candidate); Jock Anderson (National Business Review); John Banks (Mayor of Auckland); Christine Fletcher (Auckland Mayoral candidate).
A 'ballot system' for trout anglers is being trialled on the popular Greenstone River in Otago. However, some are critical of the Dept of Conservation scheme. Harvey Maguire (fishing guide); Morgan Trotter (Fish and Game NZ); Chris Carter (Minister of Conservation); Don Wallace (recreational angler).
In Los Angeles, scholar and controversial Holocaust denier David Irving has been stopped from boarding a flight bound for Auckland. David Irving (Holocaust denier); Peter Isaac (National Press Club); David Zwartz (NZ Jewish Community).
Indonesia's incumbent President, Megawati Sukarno Putri, is expected to lose by a landslide when the country goes to the polls on Monday.
Two Americans and a Briton are the latest hostages to be seized in Iraq. Report on further violence in Iraq. Also, the New York Times has reported that a CIA 'in-house thinktank' has prepared a classified report, a National Intelligence Estimate, that includes a 'worst-case scenario' for Iraq: a collapse into civil war between Sunnis and Shi'ites. Senator Joseph Biden (Democrat, Delaware).
A Ministry of Education audit has found a quarter of school computers surveyed in a sample of 25 schools have been used to access pornographic and other objectionable material from the Internet. voxpop (students); Jim Matheson (Ministry of Education); Dan Dempsey (Wellington High School); Liz Butterfield (Internet Safety Group).
The ruling Democratic Party appears to have won last week's General Election in the Cook Islands. However, Sir Geoffrey Henry's Cook Islands Party is petitioning to overturn some results in the 14 seats won by the Democratic Party.
Two minor earthquakes hit Napier this afternoon. They came as a major Civil Defence exercise on dealing with earthquakes, Operation Pegasus, got underway in Canterbury, involving rescue teams from Australia, the US, and the UN. Chris MacGuire (Australian Taskforce Leader); Lynda Angus (Ministry of Civil Defence).
A new German film portraying Adolf Hitler in his final desperate days has been criticised by some sections of the German press, who question whether Hitler should be even portrayed as a human at all.